Dnabil,
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Updated: 17 Jul 2021
dnabil,Cennet Ülkü
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350s BC: Aristotle530s BC: Pythagoras/ Spermism1859: Darwin publishes 'On the Origin of Species'1865: Gregor Mendel identifies discrete units of heredity.1869: Galton writes 'Hereditary Genius' and coins the term 'eugenics'.1927: Carrie Buck is sterilized by tubal ligation:1943: Mengele launches experiments on Jewish twins at Auschwitz.1928: Frederick Griffith1953: Watson, Crick, Wilkins and Franklin discover the structure of DNA.1975: The Asilomar meeting proposes a 'moratorium' on recombinant DNA.1976: Cancer is found tı be a disease caused by genetic mutations.1990: A single gene, SRY; is found to determine maleness.1993: A team of geneticists posits the existence of a 'gay gene'."1994: A massive genetic study debunks the conception of race.1998: Human Embryonic Stem (ES) cells are derived.1999: Jesse Gelsinger dies after attempted gene therapy.2000: Draft sequence of Human Genome Project is announced.Periods
1900-1909: Mendel's work is rediscovered, and the word 'gene' is coined.1908-1915: Morgan and his students discover genetic linkage and 'crossing over'1934-1935: 'Nuremberg Laws for the Protection of Hereditary Health' drafted.1933-1939: The German 'biological state' launches a campaing for racial hygiene.1941-1944: Avery proves that DNA is the carrier of genetic information.1945-1960: Genes found to act by encoding RNAs. Gene regulation is discovered.1961-1963: The genetic code is solved.1968-1973: Berg, Cohen and Boyer create 'recombinant DNA'1970-1980: New techniques to clone and amplify genes are invented.1978-1988: Humans disease linked genes are mapped.2005-2008: Studies on the human genome reorganize notions of human migration.2009-2013: Genes for schizophrenia, bipolar disease and autism identified.2010-2015: New methods to ' edit' and change human genoms are invented.
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