the Human Genome Project (2000) announced having completed its task
Dolly (1996-2003)
Genetic fingerprinting (1985)
Polymerase chain reaction (1983) was invented by Kary B. Mullis
Stanley P. Prusiner discovered proteins called prions (1982) which are linked to brain disorders in mammals. This discovery contradicted
long-held assumptions that only agents with DNA or RNA, such as viruses and bacteria, can replicate in the body and cause disease
Louise Brown (July 25, 1978)
in the first instance of genetic engineering (1978) Stanley Cohen and Herbert Boyer splice together fragments
of bacterial DNA and introduce this "recombinant" DNA into a strain of Escherichia coli bacteria
restriction enzymes (1978) were discovered by Werner Arber
Richard Dawkins's The Selfish Gene (1976)
reverse transcriptase (1970)
Ribosomes (1956) were first observed by George Palade
the helical structure of the DNA molecule (1953) was discovered by
James D. Watson and Francis Crick together with Rosalind Franklin
the Rh Factor (1937)
Griffith's experiment (1928)
the Mechanism of Mendelian Inheritance (1915)
Wilhelm Ludvig Johannsen (1909) coined the word gene (using the Greek for "to give birth to")
the Hardy-Weinberg Rule (1908)
the term 'genetics' (1905) was coined by William Bateson
Hugo de Vries and Carl Correns (1900) rediscovered Mendel's work
germ plasm theory (1890s) was formulated by August Weismann
