Discovered programmed call death and they both work on the human genome project. Completely sequenced the genome for several organism including humans.
King
Discovered that chips and humans share 99% of genes. She also discovered the breast cancer gene BRCA1, was the first to link cancer to an actual gene.
Jeffreys
Developed DNA fingerprinting technique that is used in many applications. He used restriction enzymes to digest DNA into a banding pattern that is compared to a known sample of DNA.
Mullis
Discovered that DNA could amplified, so that it could be studied better. The technique was called PCR polymerase chain reaction.
Sanger
Discovered the di- deoxy method of DNA sequencing.
R. Kornberg
Discovered chromatin structure. Determined that DNA was wound around histone proteins that accounted for its condensed packaging.
Cohen and Boyer
Used restriction enzymes to make recombinant DNA, DNA that has non native genes inserted into it.
Jacob and Monod
Were the first to understand how a gene was regulated (turned on/off) by studying the lac operon, a gene that codes for an enzyme that breaks down lactose.
Nirenberg
Cracked the universal genetic code, by studying E. coli. He determined that there were 64 codons that coded for the 20 amino acids present in all living organisms.
A.Kornberg
Isolated the enzyme that replicates DNA, DNA polymerase, and discovered DNA could be replicated in vitro, laid the ground work for Mullis' PCR
Meselson and Stahl
Discovered that DNA replicates in semi-conservative manner.
Crick
Developed the central dogma theory that explains how genes encode for proteins
Watson, Crick and Franklin
_________ and _________ used stolen X-ray crystallography images from _________ lab to determine the double helix structure of DNA.
Hershey and Chase
Showed that DNA was the molecule responsible for passing genes when studying bacteriophage
Chargaff
Discovered that the 4 bases ACTG are always present in a certain ratio, 1:1, A:T and G:C, called __________ rule.
McClintock
Discovered that genes were not stagnant and could transpose onto different chromosomes (jumping genes) when studying corn kernel color.
Beadle and Tatum
Discovered that enzymes were gene products, One gene one enzyme theory, when working with Neospora (bread mold)
Muller
Discovered that x-rays mutate DNA
Morgan
Discovered that chromosomes control traits when he studied white eyed male mutant drosophilia
Meischer
Discovered DNA (nuclein)
Extracted from pus filled bandages
Mendel
Worked with pea plants and discovered the laws of heredity