Genetics Timeline
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Updated: 28 Jul 2022
Every major event of the genetic timeline!
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1859: Charles Darwin publishes The Origin of Species1866: Gregor Mendel discovers the basic principles of genetics1900: The Eugenics Movement1900: Mendel's theories are rediscovered by researchers1902: Sir Archibald Edward Garrod is the first to associate Mendel's theories with a human disease1944: Oswald Avery identifies DNA as the 'transforming principle'1950: Erwin Chargaff discovers that DNA composition is species specific1952: Rosalind Franklin photographs crystallized DNA fibres1953: James Watson and Francis Crick discover the double helix structure of DNA1953: George Gamow and the “RNA Tie Club”1959: An additional copy of chromosome 21 linked to Down's syndrome1965: Marshall Nirenberg is the first person to sequence the bases in each codon1977: Frederick Sanger develops rapid DNA sequencing techniques1983: Huntington's disease is the first mapped genetic disease1990: The first gene found to be associated with increased susceptibility to familial breast and ovarian cancer is identified1990: The Human Genome Project begins1995: Haemophilus Influenzae is the first bacterium genome sequenced1996: Dolly the sheep is cloned1996: 'Bermuda Principles' established1999 - First human chromosome is decoded2000: Genetic code of the fruit fly is decoded2002: Mouse is the first mammal to have its genome decoded2003: The Human Genome Project is completed2013: DNA Worldwide and Eurofins Forensic discover identical twins have differences in their genetic makeup2014: Further Breakthroughs
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