NAME: DANGANAN, PRINCESS RONIA I.

RATING:_______
COURSE/YR: BS AGRICULTURE/ 2ND SECTION 4 DATE: 08/1/2022

ASSIGNMENT NO.1
I. Direction: Make a research about the scientists who made significant
contributions to the study of genetics. Place them in the table below. Include
the references you used (20 pts.)
Name of Scientists Discoveries/Contributions
Gregor Mendel He is a botanist, teacher, and an Augustinian prelate,
the first person to lay the mathematical foundation of
the science of genetics, in what came to be called
Mendelism and he conducted his study with the edible.
He is also known as the father of Genetics. He related
his results to the cell theory of fertilization, according
to which a new organism is generated from the fusion
of two cells and described it as the law of segregation.

Hermann Joseph He is an American geneticist who is known for his

demonstration that mutations and hereditary changes
Muller can be caused by X rays striking the genes and
chromosomes of living cells. His studies of processes
and frequencies of mutations enabled Muller to form a
picture of the arrangements and recombinations of
genes and later led to his experimental induction of
genetic mutations through the use of X rays.

August Weismann A German Biologist and one of the founders of the

science of genetics, he is known for his doctrine of the
inheritance of acquired traits and for his “germ plasm”
theory, the forerunner of DNA theory. He collect insects
and plants and research its metamorphosis and the sex
cells of the Hydrozoa with the use of microscope. Its
essence was the notion that all living things contain a
special hereditary substance

Ronald Aylmer A British statistician and geneticist who pioneered the

application of statistical procedures to the design of
Fisher scientific experiments. He’s taught high school
mathematics and physics while doing his research in
statistics and genetics. His breeding experiments led to
theories about gene dominance and fitness, published
in The Genetical Theory of Natural Selection. He
investigated the linkage of genes for different traits and
developed methods of multivariate analysis. Fisher
summed up his statistical work in Statistical Methods
and Scientific Inference.
James Watson He’s an American geneticist and biophysicist who
played a crucial role in the discovery of the molecular
structure of deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA), the substance
that is the basis of heredity. Watson became convinced
that the gene could be understood only after
something was known about nucleic acid molecules.
He learned that the essential DNA components—four
organic bases—must be linked in definite pairs. This
discovery was the key factor that enabled Watson and
Crick to formulate a molecular model for DNA—a
double helix, which can be likened to a spiraling
staircase or a twisting ladder.
Edith Rebecca She’s a British botanist and plant geneticist known for
her contributions to the understanding of trait
Saunders inheritance in plants and for her insights on flower
anatomy. She’s also known as the mother of British
plant genetics. Saunders’s early research focused on
elucidating and comparing the structure and function
of specialized secretory cells in septal glands of plants
of the genus Kniphofia. Most of her research about
genetics and botany, it concerns the relationship
between flower morphology and the evolutionary
relationships of plants.
Barbara McClintock She’s an American scientist whose discovery in the
1940s and ’50s of mobile genetic elements, or
“jumping genes,” by observing and experimenting with
variations in the coloration of kernels of corn, she
discovered that genetic information is not stationary.
She found that the controlling elements could move
along the chromosome to a different site, and that
these changes affected the behavior of neighboring
genes
Muriel Wheldale A British biochemist whose study of the inheritance of
flower color in the common snapdragon (Antirrhinum
Onslow majus) contributed to the foundation of modern
genetics. She also made important discoveries
concerning the biochemistry of pigment molecules in
plants, particularly the group of pigments known as
anthocyanins. Wheldale came to believe that
anthocyanin biosynthesis in plants was catalyzed by an
oxidase enzyme and was associated with
photosynthesis and the process of sugar formation.
George Wells Beadle An American geneticist who helped found biochemical
genetics when he showed that genes affect heredity by
determining enzyme structure. He designed a complex
technique to determine the nature of these chemical
effects in Drosophila. Their results indicated that
something as apparently simple as eye color is the
product of a long series of chemical reactions and that
genes somehow affect these reactions. His major works
include An Introduction to Genetics (1939; with A.H.
 Sturtevant), Genetics and Modern Biology (1963), and
The Language of Life (1966; with Muriel M. Beadle).

Charles Yanofsky He's an American geneticist who demonstrated the

collinearity of gene and protein structures. He showed
that a suppressor mutation (change in a gene that
reverses the visible effects of mutation in a second
gene) results in the reappearance of an enzyme that
was missing in a mutant organism. Yanofsky noticed
that the cell was able to sense how much tryptophan
was present and alter the transcription process
accordingly, halting it if necessary. This indicated that
mRNA was not the only molecule in the cell capable of
regulating transcription.
References.

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of Genetics. Retrieved August 18, 2022, from
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Andrei, A. (2013, July 27). The Embryo Project Encyclopedia. Johann Gregor Mendel
(1822-1884) | The Embryo Project Encyclopedia. Retrieved August 18, 2022, from
https://embryo.asu.edu/pages/johann-gregor-mendel-1822-1884

Bagley, M. (2013, October 11). James Watson Biography: Co-discoverer of DNA's double
helix. LiveScience. Retrieved August 18, 2022, from
https://www.livescience.com/40380-james-watson-biography.html

Fisher, Ronald Aylmer (1890-1962) -- from Eric Weisstein's World of Scientific Biography.
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George Beadle. Famous Scientists. (n.d.). Retrieved August 18, 2022, from
https://www.famousscientists.org/george-beadle/

Hauserman, S. (2013, July 17). The Embryo Project Encyclopedia. Muriel Wheldale
Onslow (1880-1932) | The Embryo Project Encyclopedia. Retrieved August 18, 2022, from
https://embryo.asu.edu/pages/muriel-wheldale-onslow-1880-1932

Hermann Joseph Muller Biography. faqs.org. (n.d.). Retrieved August 18, 2022, from
http://www.faqs.org/health/bios/66/Hermann-Joseph-Muller.html

Kubota, T. (2018, March 20). Geneticist Charles Yanofsky dies at 92. Stanford News.
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Stewart , D. (2015, December 11). Home. Famous Scientists. Retrieved August 18, 2022,
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Zou, Y. (2014, May 23). The Embryo Project Encyclopedia. August Friedrich Leopold
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