https://padlet.com/201021628/w8s0dw2sbxk781j Made with no regrets, whatsoever en-us 2020-11-19 15:55:37 UTC 2024-05-27 16:12:47 UTC hello@padlet.com 201021628 https://padlet.com/201021628/w8s0dw2sbxk781j/wish/942034507 Johann Gregor Mendel is widely recognized as the father of genetics due to his many substantial discoveries in the area.

Via cross breeding pea plants, he discovered that genetics make us up via the genetics from our parents. The dominant and recessive traits of then determine what we turn out like.

His big discoveries were the
The Law of segregation
The Law of Independent Assortment
and
The Law of Dominance

His discoveries laid the groundwork for further in depth analysis into genetics, that will in turn reveal the truth of how our genetics work.

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He managed this through the complicated process of isolating the nuclein molecule from the whole of the nuclei.

Although his hypothesis of what the nuclein was made of was incorrect, this discovery in it of itself was helpful for discoveries as time will go on.

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]]> 2020-11-19 16:12:45 UTC https://padlet.com/201021628/w8s0dw2sbxk781j/wish/942041110 201021628 https://padlet.com/201021628/w8s0dw2sbxk781j/wish/942077950 Erwin Chargaff made 2 discoveries that was crucial in the advancement of knowledge of DNA. 

The first of these was that within the chemical composition of the nuclein guanine, cytosine, adenine and thymine vary by species. But for a species, they are always equal to one another.

This discovery by Chargaff proposed the idea that DNA, not protein, might be the genetic material for life.

This would be helpful for James Watson in the future with his direct discovery of the double helix structure of DNA

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Before his discovery he understood the fact that DNA is the key to understanding life itself. Due to this they put  a large portion of their energy into discovering its secrets.

As a result in 1953 they managed to finally create an adequate model which we know today using x-ray.

Watson continued in science for decades to come and published many studies on the inner workings of his scientific field.

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Using amino acids in tests he managed to find the ways in which the code functioned due to codons.

The big takeaway from this was that Nirenberg's genetic code was universal to all forms of life. As a result a whole new field of experimentation and discovery would be opened up, allowing many more in the future to continue the work of those before them to a higher degree.

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