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How good are you at finding information on the World Wide
Web? Find out by using the search engines on the left to locate the
scientists
described below.
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An Austrian monk who discovered the basics of heredity
by breeding pea plants.
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Working with fruit flies, this scientist discovers
that genes are organized along chromosomes.
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In 1928 this scientist worked on a project involving
mice and was able to point out that DNA was the molecule of inheritance.
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These scientists invent genetic engineering
by transplanting a gene between bacterium.
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In 1952, these scientists conduct a set
of simple but ingenoius experiments using viruses to locate the DNA molecule.They
concluded that the genetic material of the virus was DNA rather than protein.
They also proved that DNA is genetic information.
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These people funded The Human Genome Project which
is aimed at decoding the entire human genome by 2003.
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They announced the complete sequencing of the first
human chromosome (22).
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They announced that the Human Genome Project is sequenced.
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This woman and man team were successful at making
a crystal of the DNA molecule. In the x-ray pattern the molecule appeared
to contain rungs like those on a ladder and an "X" shape.
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This scientist's discovery was named after him. He
found that the amount of adenine was almost equal to the amount of guanine
and that the amount of guanine was almost equal to the amount of cytosine.
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