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coined the term cells, invention of the microscope
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discovery of the simple laws of inheritance of traits that allowed one to predict the outcome of crosses with certain traits
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Louis Pasteur described the scientific basis for fermentation and propsed the Germ Theory
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Johann Miescher found nucleic acid in white bloods cells
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discorvery that genes were on chromosomes
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Alexander Flemming proved that genetic material can be moved from one strain of becteria to another
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DNA contains the same amount of units of adernine and thymine, cytosine and guanine
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proved that DNA was the hereditary material
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the blender experiment proved that viruses replicated using DNA
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x-ray crystallography showed that DNA was a duble helix
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Hayes discovered plasmid DNA
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Walter Gilbert discovered the mechanism of gene expression through mRNA
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Arber, Nathans, and Smith discovered bacterial restriction enzymes that cut DNA.
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64 codons that code for the 20 amino acids making up proteins were discovered
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DNA plasmids were isolated and purified by Vinograd.
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Madel and Higa were responsible for the first transformation of bacterium Escherichia coli.
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Dolly the sheep was cloned.
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Sanger and Cillbert found a way to sequence DNA.
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Cloning experiments were conducted by Boyer and Cohen.
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Genetech, the world's first genetic engineering company, was founded.
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140 scientist met to draw up guidlines for work with recombinant DNA in microrganisms.
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Boyer inserted a synthetic gene in E. coli.
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Discovery of personal identification known as DNA fingerprint.
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First human baby from vitro infertalization was born.
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U.S. supreme court ruled that genetically altered life forms can be patented.
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Ohio University scientist make the first transgenic animals.
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Eli Lilly Compaany placed a human insuliln gene inside bacteria.
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Plants were transformed with Agrobacterium-mediated gene transfer.
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Invention of the polymerase chain reaction to amplify DNA in the lab.
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Jeffries applied RFLP in DNA to the study of criminal cases.
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Automated flourescnece sequencer was invented.
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Genes were moved in organisms through the use of the gene gun.
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NIH revised safety guidelines for recombinant DNA to include plants grown in greenhouses and animals raised in barns.
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Discovery on RNA interference in the worm C. elegans.
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Invention of yeast artificial chromosomes.
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DNA microarray technology was developed.
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Invention of automated DNA sequencer.
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Breaker coined the term ridoswitch for part of an mRNA molecule.
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Announcement was made of the completion of the Human Genome Project.
