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Central Dogma Central Dogma is first starts with the finding that the genetic information found in chromosomes is located on the DNA, and not the protein, as McCarty and MacLoed announced to the public in 1944. It was then also backed by the E. Coli
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Nandita Natasha Naidu BioSc. 2 Dr. Re February 22, 2005 Central Dogma Central Dogma is first starts with the finding that the genetic information found in chromosomes is located on the DNA, and not the protein, as McCarty and MacLoed announced to the public in 1944. It was then also backed by the E. Coli experiment made by Hershey and Chase. Then chemist Erwin Chargaff discovered that the percent of DNA were equalities of A = T and G = C, which are now known as Chargaff's rules, which was then explained by the discovery of the double helix by Francis Crick and James Watson. RNA is the step between DNA and protein synthesis. Transcription is the synthesis of RNA under the direction of DNA. The DNA strand is used as a template during RNA synthesis. Both DNA and RNA use the same language, genetic code, and the language is simply transcribed, or copied,...
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