100 Greatest Discoveries

Genetics (1x8)

Exibido em:: Fev 02, 2005

Thirteen vital contributions to a field tht is now a cornerstone of the life sciences: -Gregor Mendel's rules of heredity -Thomas Hunt Morgan's detection of chromosomal gene location -George Beadle and Edward Tatum's "one gene, one enzyme" concept -Barbara McClintock's discovery of transposons -The acceptance of DNA as the basis of genetic information -James Watson and Francis Crick's double helix -Marshall Nirenberg's genetic code -The discoveries of RNA, restriction enzymes, RNA splicing, and RNA interference -Alec Jeffreys' DNA identification technique -The Human Genome Project.