2. History of DNA
1866 1869 1911 1950 1953
Gregor Mendel first
described patterns of
inheritance
Fredrich
Miescher first
isolated DNA
Thomas
Morgan first
described
linkage and
recombination
Edwin Chargaff
discovered that A and
T, and G and C have
equal amounts
James Watson and
Francis Crick proposed
that DNA is a double
strand with a double
helical structure
4. History of DNA
1957 1961 1970 1971 1977 1983 1986 1996
Marshall
Nirenberg
elucidated the
codons
Arthur Kornberg
replicated DNA in-
vitro using DNA
polymerase
Hamilton Smith
discovered DNA
restriction
enzymes
First genome sequenced using
in-vitro replication by Ray Wu,
A.D. Kaiser, and Ellen Taylor .
Phage λ, ~5000 nt took over 3
years
Frederick Sanger
developed dideoxy
DNA sequencing ~100
bases/reaction
PCR developed
by Kary Mullis
Leroy Hood
developed
automated
sequencing
Commercial
automated DNA
synthesizer
~1000 bases/
reaction
19. Following growing DNA strand
with ddNTPs
ddATP
All 4 dNTPs added to each.
10% of the following ddNTP added as well
ddGTP ddTTP ddCTP
At any base that complements the ddNTP, 10%
chance of terminating
20. Paper sequencing
Now that we have all these strands of
DNA whose final base we know, what
do we do with them?
30. Pros and Cons of SS
• Polymerase errors
average out
• Long sequences
(~450 bp)
• Can only do 1
sequence at a time
• Need a lot of DNA to
start with
• Expensive: 2¢/base