history of DNA

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Event Date:	Event Title:	Event Description:
10/15/1900	Science of genetics is born	Science of genetics is born when Gregor Mendels work was discovered by three students.
10/15/1935	DNA isolated	Andrei Nikolaevitch Belozersky isolated DNA in the pure state for the first time.
10/15/1953	Double stranded DNA	James Watson and Francis Crick proposed the double stranded DNA
10/15/1958	Coenberg discovered and isolated DNA polymerase	......which became the first enzyme used to make DNA in a test tube
10/15/1966	Marshall Nirenberg, Heinrich Mathaei, and Severo Ochoa	.........demonstrated that a sequence of three nucleotide bases determine each of 20 amino acids.
10/15/1972	Successful DNA	The first successful DNA cloning experiments were performed in California.
10/15/1976	First guidelines for DNA	The NIH releases the first guidelines for recombinant DNA experimentation.
10/15/1984	DNA fingerprinting	Alec Jeffreys introduces technique for DNA fingerprinting to identify individuals.
10/15/1985	Genetic fingerprinting in the Courtroom	Genetic fingerprinting enters the courtroom for cases involving sampling of DNA.
10/15/1989	Human Genome Research	Creation of the National Center for Human Genome Research headed by James Watson.
10/15/1992	Army dealing with DNA	in 1992 the Army begins collecting blood and tissue samples for "genetic dog tag" program.
10/15/1995	O.J. Simpson on DNA	PCR and DNA fingerprinting finds O.J. Simpson not guilty in double murder trial.
10/15/1998	Rough draft of the human genome map produced.	...showing the locations of the more than 30,000 genes.