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1859
1663
10000 20000 B.C.
1797
Robert Hooke
describes the first cell.
Early Biotechnology
Culitvation of crops &
domestic animals,
wine & cheese
produced.
Zacharias Janssen
discovers first
microscope.
10000 B.C. 1590
Edward Jenner uses
cowpox to
vaccinate against
smallpox.
Anton von
Leeuwenhoek
observes bacteria &
protozoa.
1675
1917
Charles Darwin
publishes “On the
Origin of Species”.
Principles of natural
selection leads to
Evolution Theory.
Matthias Schleiden,
Theodore Shawnn
develop the Cell Theory.
All living things are made
of cells.
1838 1839
1863
Gregor Mendel
discovers principles
of how traits are
passed from parents
to offspring.
Louis Pasteur
proposes the Germ
Theory, pasteurization and discovers
rabies vaccine.
1861 1885
1944
First use of the word
“Biotechnology”.
Thomas Hunt Morgan
proposes genes are
located on
chromosomes.
1986
1960s
Avery, MacLeod &
McCarty discover
DNA is the hereditary
material.
Alexander Fleming
discovers the
antibiotic penicillin.
Watson & Crick
describe the
structure of DNA.
1953
1915
1928
Stem Cell research blood and bone
marrow.
1973
FDA approves
genetically
engineered insulin.
1982
2001
Dolly is cloned.
Human Genome
Project launced to
map human genes.
Nanotechnology is
coined by Noiro
Tanuchi of Japan. The
manipulation of atoms
& molecules 10 -9 .
Stanley Cohen &
Herbert Boyer cut
and paste DNA from
2 different organismsRecombinant DNA
Science.
1990
FDA approves
Hepatitis B vaccine.
1974
2003
1996
FDA approves first
enzyme as a food
substance chymosin used for
cheese.
1990
FDA approves first
genetically
engineered crop
FLAVR SAVR tomato.
CC “Carbon Copy”
cloned kitten.
James Thompson
develops embryonic
stem cell line.
1994
Completion of
Human Genome
Project bioinformatics &
proteomics.
Glofish first
genetically modified
pet.
FDA approves
vaccine against
cervical cancer.
2003
1998
2006
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