BIOA11H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Phoebus Levene, Friedrich Miescher, Frederick Griffith
23 Aug 2019
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Joachim hammerling: austrian scientist-friar, researched patterns of inheritance by experimenting with garden peas, The father of modern genetics and their colour, size, stem length, etc: discovered alleles, and dominant and recessive traits: mendel"s laws of inheritance . Isolated a non-protein substance from the nuclei of white blood cells obtained from pus found in bandages from wounds: called in nuclein, (now called nucleic acid) Showed that proteins are not hereditary material (first person: russian-american biochemist. Oswald avery: canadian born (halifax) american medical researcher (with mccarty and macleod, transforming principle (with griffith"s work) it was dna. Martha chase: american geneticists, radioactively labelled viruses infected bacteria cells tagged dna with phosphorous, and proteins with sulphur, only phosphorous transferred dna is hereditary, confirmed for the last time, now scientific community accepts it. Page dp2: german biochemist, experimented with viruses to determine if protein or rna is responsible for replication. Franklin and wilkins: tension between them, they were studying.
