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Gregor Mendel

Discovered basic laws of inheritance (dominant/recessive traits, segregation, independent assortment)

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Thomas Hunt Morgan

Showed genes are located on chromosomes

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Alfred Sturtevant

Created first genetic linkage map

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Creighton and McClintock

Proved crossing over occurs physically between chromosomes

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Yule, Castle, and Pearson

Helped apply statistics/mathematics to genetics

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Hardy and Weinberg

Developed Hardy–Weinberg equilibrium principle

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Beadle and Tatum

Proposed one gene–one enzyme hypothesis

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Frederick Griffith

Discovered bacterial transformation

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Avery, McLeod, and McCarty

Identified DNA as the transforming material

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Martha Chase and Alfred Hershey

Confirmed DNA is genetic material

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Rosalind Franklin

Provided crucial evidence for DNA structure

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Watson and Crick

Proposed double helix structure of DNA

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Meselson and Stahl

Demonstrated semiconservative replication

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Volkin and Astrachan

Provided early evidence for mRNA

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Sydney Brenner

Helped show genetic code is read in triplets

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Nirenberg and Matthaei

Cracked first genetic code word

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1965 (genetic code completion)

Most codons of the genetic code deciphered

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Jennifer Doudna and Emmanuelle Charpentier

Developed CRISPR-Cas9 gene editing method

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Feng Zhang

Adapted CRISPR for genome editing in animal/human cells