GENETICS

Gregor Johann Mendel (1822-1884)

http://mendel.imp.univie.ac.at/mendeljsp/biography/biography.jsp

Mendel’s Scientific Career

http://www.accessexcellence.org/AB/BC/Gregor_Mendel.html

Around 1854, Mendel undertook a long experiment on plant hybridization. The experiment

o Took 2 years to prepare.

o 8 years to run.

o 2 years to analyze the results

o http://www.accessexcellence.org/AB/GG/mendel.html

o Animated: http://www.mendel-museum.org/eng/1online/experiment.htm

Mendel’s procedure

http://www.biologie.uni-hamburg.de/b-online/library/onlinebio/BioBookgenintro.html

Mendel’s actual scientific paper:

http://www.mendelweb.org/Mendel.html

Mendel’s Laws

http://www.purchon.com/biology/mendel.htm

The Search for the Gene

• Thomas Hunt Morgan, Columbia University in New York.
• http://www.nobel.se/medicine/articles/lewis/
• The ordinary fruit fly, Drosophila melanogaster.
• http://users.rcn.com/jkimball.ma.ultranet/BiologyPages/D/Drosophila.html

• Genes as Coded Information

o Max Delbrück,

o http://www.nobel.se/medicine/laureates/1969/delbruck-bio.html

o http://www.es.embnet.org/~genus/Delbruck.html

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o Erwin Schrödinger,

o http://www.nobel.se/physics/laureates/1933/schrodinger-bio.html

o What is Life?

o http://dieoff.org/page150.htm

The Phage Group

http://www.cshl.org/public/History/phagegroup.html

• Salvador Luria
• http://www.nobel.se/medicine/laureates/1969/luria-bio.html

• Alfred Hershey, http://www.nobel.se/medicine/laureates/1969/hershey-bio.html