scientists

Question 1

Wason and Crick

Answer 1

Discovery of DNA structure by making models

Question 2

Timothy Hunt

Answer 2

Discovered cycling by luck

Question 3

Meselson and Stahl

Answer 3

Discovered Semi conservative DNA “The perfect experiment”

Question 4

Gregor Mendel

Answer 4

Laws of inheritance with peas

Question 5

Davson and Danielli

Answer 5

Initial ‘sandwich’ model of membranes (proteins on outside), later partially disproved

Question 6

Singer and Nicolson

Answer 6

Fluid mosiac model of the cell membrane with proteins inside

Question 7

Charles Darwin

Answer 7

Theory of Natural Selection

Question 8

William Harvey

Answer 8

One way circulation of the blood. Studied fertilization using deer but could not prove it

Question 9

Freidrich Wöhler

Answer 9

Made urea out of an inorganic salt, falsifying the theory of vitalism

Question 10

Pasteur

Answer 10

Disproved theory of spontaneous generation with his swan-necked flask

Question 11

Florey and Chain

Answer 11

Tested penincillin (widerange drug) on mice, killed 4 but 4 survived

Question 12

Ian Wilmut

Answer 12

DOLLY THE SHEEEPPPPPP (Cloning by somatic nuclear transfer method)

Question 13

John Cairnes

Answer 13

Developed a method of measuring DNA in prokaryotes by autoradiography, radioactive thymine and photographic paper

Question 14

Peter and Rosemary Grant

Answer 14

Studied the evolution of changes in beak length in Galapagos island