The genetic revolution; milestones

MILESTONES IN THE GENETIC REVOLUTION

 Charles Darwin & Alfred Russel Wallace
The theory of evolution 1858
 Gregor Mendel
The laws of the genetic inheritance
1865
 Friedrich Miescher


The discovery of the presence of DNA in the nucleus
1869
 Beadle & Tatum The law “one gen one enzyme” 1941
 Oswald Avery, Colin McLeod & Maclyn McCarty

Demonstration that the genetic information resides in the molecule of DNA 1944
 Erwin Chargaff The discovery of the link between Adenine and Timine, and between Citosine and Guanine
1950
 Rosalind franklin
Images of christalyzed DNA Through X rays 1952

 James Watson & Francis Crick

Discovery of the structure of the DNA molecule 1953
 Francois Jacob & Jacques Monod


The theory of the “operon” (regulation of the genic expression)
1961
 Niremberg & Matthei
The first elucidation of a codon (the first step in the discovery of the genetic code) 1961
 Severo Ochoa Discovery of the genetic code 1962
 An international team
Finishes the project “Human Genome” 2001