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Genetics chap 1
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Question | Answer |
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William Bateson | coined the term genetics |
Wilhelm Johannson | Coined the term "genes" |
Stevens and Wilson | demonstrated that traits were associated with specific chromosomes |
Thomas Hunt Morgan | demonstrated sex linkage in fruit flies |
Sturtevant | Sturtevant realized recombination frequency of linked genes could allow calculation of physical distances between linked genes => gene mapping |
Herman Muller | observed that X-rays dramatically increased the number of mutations in Drosophila |
Friedrich Miescher | isolated “nuclein” |
Altman | Id'd nucleic acid for nuclein |
Phoebus Levene | determines there are two different sugars in nucleic acids |
Erwin Chargaff | base comp. data disproved tetranucleotide hypothesis |