Dnabil,
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Updated: 17 Jul 2021
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350s BC: Aristotle 530s BC: Pythagoras/ Spermism 1859: Darwin publishes 'On the Origin of Species' 1865: Gregor Mendel identifies discrete units of heredity. 1869: Galton writes 'Hereditary Genius' and coins the term 'eugenics'. 1927: Carrie Buck is sterilized by tubal ligation: 1943: Mengele launches experiments on Jewish twins at Auschwitz. 1928: Frederick Griffith 1953: Watson, Crick, Wilkins and Franklin discover the structure of DNA. 1975: The Asilomar meeting proposes a 'moratorium' on recombinant DNA. 1976: Cancer is found tı be a disease caused by genetic mutations. 1990: A single gene, SRY; is found to determine maleness. 1993: A team of geneticists posits the existence of a 'gay gene'. "1994: A massive genetic study debunks the conception of race. 1998: Human Embryonic Stem (ES) cells are derived. 1999: Jesse Gelsinger dies after attempted gene therapy. 2000: Draft sequence of Human Genome Project is announced. Periods
1900-1909: Mendel's work is rediscovered, and the word 'gene' is coined. 1908-1915: Morgan and his students discover genetic linkage and 'crossing over' 1934-1935: 'Nuremberg Laws for the Protection of Hereditary Health' drafted. 1933-1939: The German 'biological state' launches a campaing for racial hygiene. 1941-1944: Avery proves that DNA is the carrier of genetic information. 1945-1960: Genes found to act by encoding RNAs. Gene regulation is discovered. 1961-1963: The genetic code is solved. 1968-1973: Berg, Cohen and Boyer create 'recombinant DNA' 1970-1980: New techniques to clone and amplify genes are invented. 1978-1988: Humans disease linked genes are mapped. 2005-2008: Studies on the human genome reorganize notions of human migration. 2009-2013: Genes for schizophrenia, bipolar disease and autism identified. 2010-2015: New methods to ' edit' and change human genoms are invented.
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