DNA has a history????

This week in AP biology we covered the history of DNA. There are 11 prominent names that we associate with this subject. The first being T.H. Morgan who worked with fruit flies to find that chromosomes are located on genes. A second name is Freferick Griffith who was working to find a cure for pneumonia by working with Strepococcus pneumonia bacteria. Griffith discovered that there is a "Transforming Factor" that can turn harmless live bacteria into harmful bacteria when combined with heat-killed infectious bacteria. The next three names discovered just what that "Transforming Factor" was. In 1944 scientists Avery, McCarty, and MacLeod purified both proteins and DNA from Strepococcus pneumonia bacteria and injected both into bacteria. It turned out that when protein was injected into bacteria there was no effect, but when DNA was injected into bacteria it transformed the harmless bacteria into virulent bacteria. Hershey and Chase worked with bacteriophage to confirm that DNA was the "Transforming Factor." The next two names are very commonly associated with DNA having won a Novel Prize for their work with DNA. Watson and Crick are two men that discovered the double helix structure of DNA. A controversy surrounds this because it can be believed that they stole Rosalind Franklin's work.Meselson and Stahl worked with transcription, replication, and translation to try and guess where bands would be. These 11 names have forever changed the world because of their wonderful discoveries involving DNA.