摩尔根以果蝇为研究材料，在１９２６年出版《基因论》，证明基因在染色体上呈线性排列而获１９３３年诺贝尔奖。到９０年以前至少有１７次把诺贝尔奖授予了参与核酸研究的有重大贡献的３４位科学家，其中大部分为美国和西欧人，这样的情况实属罕见。１９５３年，沃森和克里克 Mogan to Drosophila as a research material, published in 1926, “Gene Theory”, showing that the gene was arranged in a linear chromosome and won the 1933 Nobel Prize. It was rare that at least 17 of the Nobel Prizes 90 years ago had been awarded 34 significant scientists involved in nucleic acid research, most of them in the United States and Western Europe. In 1953, Watson and Creek