People in Genetics

Question 1

Camerarius

Answer 1

Some plants are capable of sexual reproduction

Question 2

Kolreuter

Answer 2

tobacco plants, discovered Mendel’s Laws before Mendel,
Introduced term “hybrid vigor”

Question 3

De Graff

Answer 3

Found human egg (follicle)
Magnified idea that humans have sex cells
Introduced Leuwenhoek to Royal Academy of Sciences

Question 4

Hertwig

Answer 4

How cells fuse
Gives insight to fertilization
Describes pro-nucleus

Question 5

Leeuwenhoek

Answer 5

makes microscopes with better lenses to see cells

Question 6

Darwin

Answer 6

good genetic basis for evolution, but not inheritance

Question 7

Hooke

Answer 7

describes cells,improved Leeunwenhoek’s microscope

Question 8

Brown

Answer 8

first person to describe the nucleus, Brownian motion

Question 9

Schleiden,Schwann, Virchow

Answer 9

Cell Theory

Question 10

Kolliker

Answer 10

used sea eggs to describe the action of sperm and egg in fertilization
,thought the nucleus was involved in heredity

Question 11

Van Nagelli

Answer 11

reported rod like bodies in the nucleus ( chromsomes)

Question 12

Strausberger

Answer 12

describes cell division, observed how one cell gives rise to two, set standard for meiosis, invented the word “nucleoplasm”

Question 13

Ehrilich

Answer 13

developed “magic bullet” which cured syphilis, wrote about the role of nucleus and heredity

Question 14

Walter Flemming

Answer 14

described cell structure, division, nucleus structure, Invented the word “chromosome” (colored bodies), coined the term “mitosis” and identifies some of its stages

Question 15

Fol

Answer 15

further knowledge of meiosis, how sperm enters egg

Question 16

Van Beneden

Answer 16

studied Ascaris worm chromosome and meiosis

Question 17

Miescher

Answer 17

collected pus soaked rags, describes unknown substance in pus he called “nuclein” (really DNA) and suspected it had something to do with heredity

Question 18

Boveri

Answer 18

said certain portions on linear chromosomes were responsible for certain traits, introduced the term “centromere”

Question 19

Roux

Answer 19

father of experiment embryology, describes the longitude of the division of chromosomes

Question 20

Weismann

Answer 20

tell difference between germ and somatic cells

Question 21

Mendel

Answer 21

studied traits in peas that were dominant and recessive, established the basics of genetics and fundamentals of inheritance, law of independent assortment

Question 22

Hugo de Vries

Answer 22

rediscovered Mendel’s work and attempts to discover the basis for evolution, began evolutionary genetics

Question 23

William Bateson

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coined term “genetics”, applied mendelian genetics to animal inheritance

Question 24

Sutton

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confirms the chromosome carries genes, coined word “ diploid state”

Question 25

Punnet

Answer 25

worked with Bateson to describe the process of gene linkage, developed punnet square

Question 26

Hardy & Weinberg

Answer 26

HW equation, Population genetics

Question 27

McClung

Answer 27

describes sex chromosomes and the difference using grasshoppers

Question 28

W.F Castle

Answer 28

describes genetics characteristics and traits that can be linked to chromosomes, focused on genetics of albinism, color patterns on cats, inheritance of horse genetics

Question 29

Johansen

Answer 29

fundamental work in inheritance, defined genotype and phenotype

Question 30

Galten

Answer 30

Darwn's cousin, Principles of eugenics, selective breeding

Question 31

Thomas Hunt Morgan

Answer 31

work on fruit flies, theory of the gene, regeneration, gene linkage

Question 32

Bridges

Answer 32

student of Morgan, gene linkage- how they interact, what they do

Question 33

Sturtevant

Answer 33

first real chromosome map with fruit flies

Question 34

Blakeslee

Answer 34

discovers certain chemicals cause mutations

Question 35

Goldschmidt

Answer 35

physiological genetics on effects of genes on plants

Question 36

Lysenko

Answer 36

renounced mendellian genetics, did survival of the fittest on plants and held back russion genetics

Question 37

Valivilov

Answer 37

improved plants in russia, created a seed bank

Question 38

Stern

Answer 38

Worked with Creighton and McClintock, worked with fruit flies, discovered crossing over

Question 39

Creighton

Answer 39

worked with crossing over

Question 40

McClintock

Answer 40

worked with crossing over, discovered jumping genes, worked with the concept of transposons

Question 41

Kossel

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worked with nucleic acids, describes nucleotides, figures out more about the deoxyribose sugar, works with amino acids and chemicals of DNA, defines it , and coins the name

Question 42

Fischer

Answer 42

figured out the chemistry of nucleic acids (won a Nobel)

Question 43

Garroc

Answer 43

father of biochemical genetics, puts all the discoveries of DNA, nucleotides, and realizes the connection of these and the putting together or development of a gene

Question 44

Griffith

Answer 44

DNA is responsible for translating/transforming the genetic code

Question 45

Avery-Mcleod-McCarty

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followed the work of Griffith and discovers that DNA is a hereditary material

Question 46

Beadle-Tatum

Answer 46

enhance the chemical study of the gene, not only qualitative work but also quantitative work with genes using fruit flies

Question 47

Levene

Answer 47

describes a molecule that uses ribose sugar (RNA)

Question 48

Chargaff

Answer 48

Chargaff ratio

Question 49

Dobzhansky

Answer 49

evolutionary basis of genetics

Question 50

Crick & Watson

Answer 50

credited with discovery of the double helix

Question 51

Berg-Sanfer-Gilbert

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developed molecular techniques to develop DNA, understand how exons and introns work

Question 52

King

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genetic basis of cancer

Question 53

Wexler

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knew Huntington's disease was dominant (mother died from it), started research and discovered town where is was prominent (in Venezuela), found it was initiated by genetic drift, brought in by found effect

Question 54

Lyon

Answer 54

Lyon hypothesis, studied calico cats, described mosaic

Question 55

Holley

Answer 55

determine role of tRNA

Question 56

McKusick

Answer 56

McKusick dictionary that catalogues genetic anomalies, symptoms, medicine , and therapy that can be used

Question 57

Baltimore

Answer 57

RNA Template

Question 58

Hutchinson

Answer 58

studied mitochondrial DNA, gives insight into inheritance patterns

Question 59

Varaus

Answer 59

Understand the genetic reason for types of cancer (oncogenes)