People

Question 1

Henrietta Lacks

Answer 1

An African-American whose ovarian cancer cells were taken for research without her consent and found to be immortal, able to survive in lab conditions.
Her contribution, though controversially unknown to her, her cells have been used in many different types of research and to test the effects of radiation.

Question 2

Erwin Chargaff

Answer 2

Found that the number of purines (A+G) and the number of pyrimidnes (T+C) always equal each other.

Question 3

Rosalind Franklin

Answer 3

Used X-ray diffraction to obtain images of the DNA structure (Photograph 51), finally seeing the double helix shape of our DNA. She was given no credit for her findings and died at an early age from cancer, most likely from the radiation she was constantly exposed to.

Question 4

Maurice Wilkins

Answer 4

Undermine and diminished the work of Rosalind Franklin, winning the Nobel prize in 1962 with James Watson and Francis Crick.

Question 5

James Watson and Francis Crick

Answer 5

Understanding the rules of other’s research, they deduced that the doubles helices ran anti parallel and described the complimentary bases, publishing their research without accrediting the people that discovered the idea they based their research on.