5. Carl Linnaeus
• Father of
modern taxonomy.
• Laid the
foundations for the
modern scheme
of binomial
nomenclature.
6.
7. Gregor Mendel
• The father of Genetics.
• Published the results of his
investigations of the inheritance of
"factors" in pea plants.
• Mendelian laws of Inheritance
• 1. Law of Segregation
• 2. Law of Independent Assortment
8.
9. Carl Correns, Hugo De
Vries, Erich Von
Tschermak-Seysenegg
• Duplicated the work of
Mendel.
10. Walter Sutton
• Pointed out the
interrelationships
between cytology and
Mendelism, closing the
gap between cell
morphology and
heredity.
• Fertilization.
11. Friedrich Miescher
• He was the
first
researcher to
isolate and
identify nucleic
acid.
• Weak acid.
13. • Reported that they
Oswald
had purified the
Avery , transforming
Colin principle in
MacLeod , Griffith's
Maclyn experiment and
that it was DNA.
McCarty
• DNA- genetic
material
14. Martha Chase
Alfred Hershey
• Used phages
in which the
protein was
labeled with
35S and the
DNA with 32P
for the final
proof that
DNA is the
molecule of
heredity.
