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chromosome sex-linked inheritance
Study DNA's double helix structure to learn how the organic chemical determines an organism's traits
Learn how DNA thermal cycler employs polymerase chain reaction to copy DNA strands
Understanding genetics with pea plants and the Punnett square
Why are children slightly different from their parents?
How does a robotic pipeline for bacterial genetics help scientists at University College Cork?
Recombinant DNA
What is the field of immunogenomics?
How was Dolly cloned?
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initial proposal of DNA structure
polynucleotide chain of deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA)
Study DNA's double helix structure to learn how the organic chemical determines an organism's traits
Learn how DNA thermal cycler employs polymerase chain reaction to copy DNA strands
Understanding genetics with pea plants and the Punnett square
Why are children slightly different from their parents?
How does a robotic pipeline for bacterial genetics help scientists at University College Cork?
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American molecular biologist and geneticist
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Victor Ambros
American developmental biologist and molecular geneticist
Svante Pääbo
Svante Pääbo
Swedish evolutionary geneticist
Jeffrey C. Hall
American geneticist
Michael Rosbash
American geneticist
Michael W. Young
American geneticist
Gregor Mendel
Gregor Mendel
botanist
Ian Wilmut
British biologist
Thomas Hunt Morgan
Thomas Hunt Morgan
American biologist
Bruce Ames
American biochemist and geneticist
Lancelot Thomas Hogben
English scientist
Weismann, August
August Weismann
German biologist
Theodosius Dobzhansky
American scientist
Venter, J. Craig
J. Craig Venter
American geneticist, biochemist, and businessman
Fred H. Gage
American geneticist
Hermann Joseph Muller
American geneticist
Stephen J. Elledge
American geneticist
Alexander Gordon Bearn
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Evelyn M. Witkin
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