Genetics Facts

GENETICS FACTS

• Father of Genetics Gregor John Mendel.

• Hugo deVries, Carl Correns & Tschermak independently rediscovered Mendelism.

• Theory of Continuity of Germplasm proposed by Weismann.

• Chromosomal Theory of Inheritance proposed by Sutton & Boveri.

• De-novo synthesis of biologically active DNA done by Itakure.

• Gene Term coined by Johanssen (1905).

• Genetics, Genotype & phenotype terms coined by Bateson.

• Spontaneous Mutations were discovered by Hugo de Vries.

• Linkage in Drosophila studied by Thomas Hunt Morgan.

• Evidence of Semiconservative replication found by Meselson & Stahl. 

• Double Helix of DNA described by James Watson & Francis Crick.

• One gene one peptide hypothesis given by Beadle & Tatum.

• Lac Operon  in E. coli Studied by Jacob and Monod.

• Gene for bobbed brostles discovered by Curt Stern.

• Jumping genes or Transposomes discovered by Barbra McClinton.

• Triplet Codon proposed by Gamow.

• Experimental evidence of triplet codon given by Nirenberg and  Mathaei.

• Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR) discover by Kary Mullis.

• DNA Fingerprinting discovered by Alec Jeffrey.

• Di-deoxy Method of Nucleotide sequencing discovered by Fredric Sanger.

• Method of sequencing of Amino acids in a polypeptide was also discovered by Sanger. 

• Father of Eugenics is Francis Galton.

• Chiasma discovered by Jenssens.

• Experimental proof of Nucleus responsible for heredity given by Hammerling.

• Proof of DNA as genetic material from Transduction Experiment by Harshey & Chase.

• Wobble hypothesis proposed by Francis Crick.

• Inborn errors in metabolism of human being discovered by Achibald Garrod.

• Terms Heterochromatin and Euchromatin proposed by Heitz. 

•  Experiments of Nuclear Transplantation by Robert Briggs & Thomas King.

• Naturalistic or Biochemical Origin of  life proposed by Operin.

• Oncogenes discovered by Michael Bishop & Harol Vermus (1976).