What is the model organism for colon cancer and other cancers?
E. coli
What is the model organism for cancer, and werner syndrome
S. cerevisiae
What is the model organism for disorders of the nervous system and cancer
D. melanogaster
What is the model organism for cardiovascular disease?
D. rerio
What is the model organism for Lesch-Nyhan disease, cystic fibrosis, fragile-X syndrome, and many other diseases?
M. musculus
Who:
- Created the Treatise on the seed
- Created the Pangenesis theory
Hippocrates
Who:
- Came up with the idea of “vital heat”
Aristotle
Who:
- Was the first to study genetic crosses in plants
- Provided evidence for blending theory of inheritance
Joseph Kolreuter
Who:
- Came up with the law of segregation
- Came up with the law of Independent Assortment
Gregor Mendel
Who:
- Created the pangenesis theory
- Wrote the origin of the species
- Came up with the theory of evolution
- Came up with descent with modification
-Discovered Natural Selection
Charles Darwin
Who:
- Came up with Homunculus
Paraculsus
Who:
- Came up with the Ex ovo omnia principle
William Harvey
Who:
- Came up with epigenesis
Casper Wolff
Who:
- Studied the theory of Natural selection separate from Darwin
Alfred Russell Wallace
Who:
- Verifies Mendel’s work
Hugo de Vries, Carl Correns, and Erich von Tschemak
Who:
- Responsible for the cell theory
Schleiden and Schwann
Who:
- Discovered sex chromosomes
Nettie Stevens and Edmund Wilson
Who:
- Responsible for the theory of sex-linked inheritance
Thomas Hunt Morgan
Who:
- Discovered the nature of the codon
Marshall Nirenberg and Heinrich Matthaei
Who:
- Identified DNA and nucleic acid
Friedrich Miecher
Who:
- Identified proteins
Jons Jacob Berzelius
Who:
- Created the Chargaff Rule
Erwin Chargaff
Who:
- Created the triplet code
Crick, Brenner, Barnett, and Watts-Tobin
Who:
- Was the first to observe cell division
- Discovered chromatin
Walter Flemming
