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Genetic Discoveries
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Theory of Evolution
Charles Darwin publishes "On the Origin of Species" -
Gregor Mendel discovers heredity and the birth of genetics
He experimented with pea plants and their family history and discovered a pattern, his work was before his time and will go unnoticed for a while. -
Cloning Vertebrae
Hans Spemann cloned a salamander by dividing the 2 cells of an embro -
Discovered that DNA is carried by chromosomes
Mr. Morgan and his students studied fruit fly genes -
the first idea of Cloning
Hans Spemann tried to remove a nucleus from an egg cell and replace the nucleus from another cell with that one -
DNA structure is a Double Helix
Watson and Crick stole Wilkins and Franklin's DNA structure discoveries -
Enzymes copy DNA
Discovered by Mr. Kornburg and friends -
Genetic Code is Cracked
They found that 4 nucleic acids determine the 20 kinds of amino acids, discovered by Marshall Nirenberg -
Human Genome Project started
project dedicated to understanding the human genetic code -
Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act (GINA)
the first genetic discrimination law passed