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Known as "The Father of Modern Genetics"
Using pea plants, Mendel came upon the discovery that genes come in pairs and are thereby inherited in distinctive units

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First person to work on DNA
While investigating proteins cells, Miescher found unexpected properties that did not mirror those of proteins

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Experimented on mice
Preformed experiments showing that bacteria holds the capability of transferring genetic information, called the transforming principle

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First person to obtain a protein sequence
He proved that proteins were ordered molecules

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Figured out that Adenine=thymine and
guanine= cytosine
He began the investigation into the composition of DNA and by 1950 he published certain crucial facts that led directly to the correct sequence of its molecular structure

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Made viruses with just radioactive protein and just radioactive DNA
Concluded that the radioactive DNA entered the bacteria cell, thereby infecting it. Also discovered that DNA controlls genes

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Professor of molecular biology at Harvard
Used x-ray crystallography to figure out structure of a specific protein, thereby having proof for the semi-conservative professor

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Published a paper in nature on the fine mapping of mutations in phage with Benzer, Crick, and Barnett
Sparked an interest in the problem of development, especially in the nervous system

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Shared he noble prize for Physiology or medicine with Har Gobind Khorana and Robert Holley for cracking the genetic code
In 1960 he began working on how to decipher the RNA code
e had the first piece of genetic code

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Invented polymerase chain reactions
Joined the Cetus corporation as a DNA chemist
researched o synthesis of oligonucleotides