GENETICS

THE SCIENTIST AND THEIR

CONTRIBUTIONS

Improved our understanding of genetics.

His research helped to make organ transplantations possible.

Dr. Bernard Amos

He was the first person to use the term genetics to describe the study of heredity and biological inheritance.

Coined the term “Genetics”.

William Bateson

His work cloned frogs laid the foundations for somatic cell nuclear transfer, the application of which led to Dolly the sheep.

John Gurdon

Worked out the Structure of Proteins.

Linus Pauling

“The Father of Cloning”.

Hans Spermann

“The Father of Genetics”.

Gregor Mendel

Worked on a project that enabled others to point out that the DNA was the molecule of inheritance.

Frederick Griffith

DNA was a genetic material, an inheritance molecule.

Oswold Avery

Found out the shape of the DNA.

Watson and Crick

He noticed that there is a pattern in the 4 bases: Adenine, Guanine, Cytosine and Thymine.

A=T and G=C.

Erwin Chargaff

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