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Question 1

1860

Answer 1

Mendel’s work on peas allows the conclusion that traits are inherited through discrete units passed from one generation to the next.

Question 2

1870s

Answer 2

Friedrich Miescher describes nucleic acids.

Question 3

1909

Answer 3

The word “gene” coined by Danish Botanist Wileheim Johannsen

Question 4

1910

Answer 4

Thomas Morgan’s work on fruit flies demonstrated that genes lie on chromosomes

Question 5

1940

Answer 5

Barbara McClintock describes mobile genetic elements in maize

Question 6

1944

Answer 6

Oswald Avery shows in bacteria that nucleic acids are in the “transforming principle”

Question 7

1953

Answer 7

James Watson and Francis Crick publish the double helix model for DNA’S chemical structure

Question 8

1958

Answer 8

Crick proposes the “central dogma”for biological information flow:that DNA makes RNA and makes protein.

Question 9

1977

Answer 9

Philip Sharp and Richard Roberts find that protein-coding genes are carried in segments

Question 10

2001

Answer 10

Initial results from the Human Genome Project published