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INDEX

Avery, Oswald 11 Miescher, Johann Friedrich 9, 11
Birney, Ewan 39 discovery of DNA 9, 11
cellular structure 5, 9, 11, 12, 13, 14, 16, 19, 20, 22, Morgan, Thomas Hunt 16
29, 32, 35, 39 National Center for Human Genome Research 20
chemical elements 11, 12, 13 National Institutes of Health (NIH) 19, 43
chromosomes 11, 12, 14, 20, 39 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 13
and division 13, 32, 35 Punnett, Reginald 9
genes 5, 11, 14, 16, 19, 20, 29, 35, 39 Sanger, Fred 17
molecules 9, 11, 12, 13, 14, 22 virus sequencing 17
proteins 11 Sinsheimer, Robert 17
See also DNA Sturtevant, Alfred 16
Clinton, Bill 26 first genetic map of fruit flies 16
Collins, Francis 29 transgenic animals 19
computer technology 5, 22, 29, 35 Venter, Craig 22, 25, 26, 29
Crick, Francis 12, 13, 14, 16 Celera 25, 29
Czar Nicholas II 40 The Institute for Genomic Research (TIGR) 25
deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) 5, 11, 12, 13, 14, 16, Vogelstein, Bert 32
17, 19, 22, 25, 29, 30, 35, 37, 39, 40 Watson, James 12, 13, 14, 16, 19, 29
Combined DNA Index System (CODIS) 37 Wilkins, Maurice 12, 13
double helix structure 12, 13, 14 Winkler, Hans 16
and genetic traits 11, 14, 35, 37
nitrogen base pairs 13, 14, 17, 22, 25, 29
Dulbecco, Renato 19
Franklin, Rosalind 12
genome sequencing 5, 14, 16, 17, 19, 20, 22, 25, 26,
29–30, 32, 35, 37, 39–40, 43
BabySeq Project 32
of bacteria 20, 25
Cancer Genome Atlas 32
criminal justice applications 5, 37, 39–40
and expressed sequence tags 22
healthcare applications 5, 16, 19, 26, 29, 30, 32,
35, 37
of roundworms 25
Green, Robert 32
Human Genome Project (HGP) 5, 19–20, 22, 25, 29,
32, 37
Mendel, Gregor 7, 9, 11
dominant and recessive traits 9
and study of pea plants 7, 9
microscopes 11

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