1859 | | 24 Nov:
Charles Darwin publishes his groundbreaking volume, "On the Origin of Species".Literature.org NSF |
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1863 | | 3 Mar:
The National Academy of Sciences is established.NAS Harvard |
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1865 | | 8 Feb:
Gregor Mendel first presents his works on plant hybridization.Nature NIH |
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1869 | | 26 Feb:
Physician Friedrich Miescher reports that he isolated DNA from white blood cells, naming it nuclein.SciDir RalfDahm |
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1949 | | 6 Jan:
The first photograph of genes was taken at the University of Southern California by Dr. Daniel Chapin Pease and Dr. Richard Freligh Baker. TiS DE |
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1952 | | 20 Sep:
Geneticists Alfred Hershey and Martha Chase publish their conclusion that DNA is where life's hereditary data is found.OSU RUP |
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1953 | | 28 Feb:
At Cavendish Laboratory at Cambridge University, scientists James D. Watson and Frances H.C. Crick announce that they have determined the chemical structure of DNA.NIH GO |
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1981 | | 9 Apr:
The complete sequence of the 16,569-base pair human mitochondrial genome is presented in the journal Nature.GoogleBooks SCIRP |
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1996 | | 5 Jul:
Dolly the sheep, the first successfully cloned mammal, is born.SA G&S |
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2001 | | 15 Feb:
The Human Genome Project publishes its results to date in the journal Nature.Genome Nature |
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