| A | B |
| Frederick Griffith | Discovered bacterial transformation |
| Avery and MacLeod | Reasoned Griffith's transforming factor was probably DNA |
| Hershey and Chase | Proved DNA is the hereditary molecule, not proteins |
| Edwin Chargaff | Discovered the amount of A+t and the amount C=G |
| Franklin and Wilkins | Used x-ray pictures to figure out the width of DNA |
| Watson and Crick | Built the double helix model of DNA used today |
| DNA | a molecule built using deoxyribose |
| RNA | a molecule built using ribose |
| nucleotides | monomers used to build DNA and RNA |
| protein | a molecule built from amino acids |