Pa505 - Study guides, Class notes & Summaries

Gregor Mendel - Father of Genetics. Used pea plants to create 3 laws: law of uniformity, law of segregation, and the law of independent assortment Oswald Avery - showed that genes are composed of DNA James Watson and Francis Crick - demonstrated the structure of DNA Gene - basic unit of heredity. Section of DNA which codes for a specific protein Genome - All of the DNA in an organism used as instructions to make a human What was the first human hormone made using recombinant DNA technolog...