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Chromosome Era
1905 1920
This was the era where chromosomes were widely studied and new discoveries about it arised.
1908 Reginald Punnett He is thecreator of the Punnett square: used by biologists to predict
the probability of possible genotypes of offspring
1910 Alfred Sturtevant He constructed the first genetic map of a chromosome
Discovery of DNA
1920 1962
This was the era where various studies about DNA were made.
1927 Hermann Joseph Muller He discovered the effects of x-ray radiation to DNA (x-ray
mutagenesis)
1930 Ronald Fisher He published The Genetical Theory of Natural Selection without states
that population size can speed up evolution.
1931 Barbara McClintock She discovered jumping genes, crossing over phenomenon and
genetic recombination
1935 Hans Spemann He is the father of cloning who theorized that cloning would be possible
with differentiated cells.
1944 Oswald Theodore Avery He discovered that DNA is a material for genetic transfer
1950 Erwin Chargaff Chargaffs rules which states that # of guanine = # of cytosine units in
natural DNA and # of adenosine = # of thymine in natural DNA
1951 Petrus Johannes Waardenburg He studied about Waardenburg Syndrome (wide
nosebridge & deafness)
1951 Linus Pauling He worked out the structure of proteins
1952 Alfred Hershey and Martha Chase They discovered that genes are made up of DNA
1953 Rosalind Franklin Has a role in the discovery of the structure of the DNA and applicated
X-ray diffraction of DNA fibers
1953 Francis Crick and James Watson He discovered the three dimensional double helix
structure of DNA
1956 Joe Hin Tjio He proved that the human chromosome number is 46, not 48
1958 Frederick Sanger He developed Sanger sequencing, a method of DNA sequencing.
He studied sequencing insulin, and then sequencing RNA, BEFORE he started
sequencing DNA, he is well known for his studies on the amino acid sequence of insulin
1960 Seymor Benzer He was a pioneer of neurogenetics
1962 John Gurdon He found that mature cells can be reprogrammed to be pluripotent