Theodosius Dobzhansky was a scientist that had a large impact on science in the fields of genetics and the Theory of Evolution. Dobzhansky was born on January 25, 1900 in Nemirov, Russia. He moved to the United States of America in 1928 after graduating collage. Theodosius decided he wanted to be a biologist at the age of 12 while he was collecting butterflies because he was fascinated by the way the butterfly worked. Theodosius graduated from the University of Kiev. And moved to the United States to work at Columbia University to be a fellow to geneticist Thomas Hunt Morgan. A geneticist is a biologist who studies genetics. He studied new versions of genes. Theodosius Dobzhansky experimented on fruit flies, in Thomas Morgan’s “Fly Room”, to show the natural populations of the fruit flies exhibited the same kinds of genetic variations that could be produced artificially by mutation in his laboratory. He also found a new species and published his results in Genetics and the Origin of Species. His species was a set of mutations that would replicate and …show more content…
Mr. Yuri was a professor at Leningrad University in Russia. The rest of the world did not know a whole lot about genetics, genes, and the theory of evolution around the time that Theodosius was experiment. They knew the shape of DNA, deoxyribonucleic acid, and had already created a 3D model of it. Rosalind Franklin, Linus Pauling, James Watson, Francis Crick, and Maurice Wilkins all helped create the first three-dimensional model of DNA. (DNAI) Dobzhansky and Morgan worked on the genes. The rest of the world, though, did know quite a lot about the Theory of Evolution. Charles Darwin and Alfred Russel Wallace developed the Theory of Evolution in the 1800’s and Darwin explained it, in detail, in his On the Origin of Species. At this point the Theory of Evolution was an idea and had been proven by small