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Genetics Timeline
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28 Jul 2022
Every major event of the genetic timeline!
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Any events that are missing? Put them down here with some info.
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1859: Charles Darwin publishes The Origin of Species
1866: Gregor Mendel discovers the basic principles of genetics
1900: The Eugenics Movement
1900: Mendel's theories are rediscovered by researchers
1902: Sir Archibald Edward Garrod is the first to associate Mendel's theories with a human disease
1944: Oswald Avery identifies DNA as the 'transforming principle'
1950: Erwin Chargaff discovers that DNA composition is species specific
1952: Rosalind Franklin photographs crystallized DNA fibres
1953: James Watson and Francis Crick discover the double helix structure of DNA
1953: George Gamow and the “RNA Tie Club”
1959: An additional copy of chromosome 21 linked to Down's syndrome
1965: Marshall Nirenberg is the first person to sequence the bases in each codon
1977: Frederick Sanger develops rapid DNA sequencing techniques
1983: Huntington's disease is the first mapped genetic disease
1990: The first gene found to be associated with increased susceptibility to familial breast and ovarian cancer is identified
1990: The Human Genome Project begins
1995: Haemophilus Influenzae is the first bacterium genome sequenced
1996: Dolly the sheep is cloned
1996: 'Bermuda Principles' established
1999 - First human chromosome is decoded
2000: Genetic code of the fruit fly is decoded
2002: Mouse is the first mammal to have its genome decoded
2003: The Human Genome Project is completed
2013: DNA Worldwide and Eurofins Forensic discover identical twins have differences in their genetic makeup
2014: Further Breakthroughs
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