| A | B |
| Gregor Mendel | father of genetics |
| Walter Sutton | genes are chromosomes |
| Theodore Boveri | genes are chromosomes |
| Thomas Hunt Morgan | Each gene has a locus |
| Francois Jacob | gen. exp. controlled by reg. genes |
| Jacques Monod | gen. exp. controlled by reg. genes |
| Nirenberg, Leder | prod. synth. RNA/break DNA code |
| Wilhelm Ludwig Johannsen | introduce word gene |
| William Bateson | inher. of pheno. genetically linked |
| Tim Hunt, Mark Kirschner | discovered cyclin |
| Frederick Griffith | disc. transform. effect of DNA |
| Oswald Avery & others | genes composed of DNA |
| Rosalind Franklin | studies DNA using X-Ray diffraction |
| Linus Pauling, Robert Corey | helix structure of proteins |
| James Watson, Francis Crick | double helix model of DNA |
| Sydney Brenner & others | showed existence of mRNA |
| Walter Gilbert & others | methods to read DNA sequence |
| Erwin Charagaff | base pairing |
| Karl Landsteiner | discovers ABO blood types |
| Levine, Wiener, Stetson | helped discover the RH factor |
| Phillip Syng Physick | first blood transfusion |
| Decastrello, Sturli | discover AB blood group |
| Reuben Ottenberg | O blood group is universal |