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Genetics 2024. Famous Geneticists
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12/15/2010

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Gregor Mendel
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Father of Modern Genetics. Worked with pea plants. Discovered Law of Segregations and Independent Assortment.
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Thomas Hunt Morgan
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Discovered role of Chromosomes in inheritance. Worked with Drosophila. Nobel Prize, 1933.
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Alfred Sturtevant
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First Genetic Map.
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Fredrick Griffith
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Discovered that "factors" from dead bacteria could be inserted into live bacteria, AKA Transformation.
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Edward Lewis
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Developed Complementation Test.
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Jean Brachet
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Discovered that DNA was present in chromosomes, and that RNA was present in all cells.
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Edward Lawrie Tatum and George Wells Beadle
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Showed that genes code for proteins, and that one gene codes for one specific enzyme.
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Avery, MacLoed, and McCarty
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Showed that DNA was the genetic material, then known as the 'transforming principle'.
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Edward Chargaff
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Showed the A + G was roughly equal to T + C.
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Barbara McClintock
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Discovered Transposons in maize.
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Hershey and Chase
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Proved that the genetic information of phages (and by extension most all other organisms) was DNA.
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James D. Watson and Francis Crick
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Discovered the Structure of DNA.
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Meselson and Stahl
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Discovered that DNA replication was semiconservative.
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Marshall Nirenberg, Har Gobind Khorana, Sydney Brenner & Francis Crick (Crick, Barnett, Brenner, Watts-Tobin 1961)
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"Cracked" the genetic code, i.e. which base sequences coded for which amino acids, and that the code was
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Rosalind Franklin
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X-ray Crystallographer, whose images of DNA assisted Watson and Crick in determining it's structure.
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Walter Fiers
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Mapped the gene sequence of bacteriophage MS2-RNA.
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Fred Sanger, Walter Gilbert, and Allan Maxam
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Sequenced DNA, working independently.
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Fred Sanger
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Mapped the gene sequence of bacteriophage Φ-X174, as well as doing some protein mapping.
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Francis Collins and Lap-Chee Tsui
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Mapped the CSFR gene, which when defective causes cystic fibrosis.
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Vernon Ingram
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Discovered cause of sickle-cell anemia: HbS, a defective hemoglobin protein.
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Charles Yanofsky
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Discovered that DNA -> Protein was colinear.
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Seymour Benzer
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Developed fine structure mapping of bacteriophage.
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Jacob and Monod
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Discovered galactose system in bacteria.
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Cairns
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Discovered Replication Fork in DNA.
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Okazaki
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Aside from wooing several ladies in the visual novel Clannad... oh wait, wrong Okazaki. Discovered fragments in the discontinuous 3' -> 5' synthesis pattern.
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Margaret Kidwell
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Discoverd Hybrid Dysgenesis.
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Bernard Davis
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U-tube experiment, which proved that contact was necessary for Conjugation to occur.
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Bateson and Punnet
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Linkage in sweet peas.
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Harriet Creighton and Barbara McClintock
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Showed that crossing over was the method of recombination of linked genes.
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Karpachenko
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Crossed a cabbage with a radish in 1928. Tragically, the hybrid had the head of a radish and the root of a cabbage.
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Joshua Lederberg and Edward Tatum
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Discovered Conjugation.
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William Hayes
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Discovered the F factor.
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Cavalli-Sforza
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Discovered Hfr.
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Elie Wollman and Francois Jacob
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Interrupted Mating.
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Edward Adelberg
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Discovered F'.
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Joshua Lederberg and Norton Zinder
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Discovered Transduction.
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