A look back to the biology research that preceded the 1950s reveals major developments in the area of molecular biology and the nature of the gene. So it is no surprise that the NABT History Committee would ask the question, when is DNA addressed within The American Biology Teacher? NABT History Committee member Maura C. Flannery, former author of ABT’s “Biology Today” column, took a look, and here is her report on the 1950s.
We chose to focus on the 1950s for the simple reason that we wanted to find the first mention of DNA. Well, if I had thought about it, I would have realized that DNA would be mentioned long before its structure was determined in 1953 because its presence in chromosomes was known for a long time. The first ABT mention of DNA’s structure came in 1958, in an article by Donald Dean of Baldwin...
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