Biology By nyfi14 Jan 1, 1000 Solar System Forms (4.5 billion years ago) (4.5 billion years ago) Jan 1, 1000 Earth Forms (4.5 BYA) Period: Jan 1, 1000 to May 16, 2010 Life's Evolution Jan 1, 1050 Organic Molecules Form (4 BYA) Jan 1, 1100 1st Archaebacteria (3.5 BYA) Jan 1, 1160 1st Cyanobacteria (2.7 BYA) Jan 1, 1200 Oxygen in the atmosphere (2.4 BYA) Jan 1, 1200 Ozone forms (2.4 BYA) Jan 1, 1300 Endosymbiosis (1.45 BYA) Jan 1, 1350 1st Protists/Algae (1.7 BYA) Jan 1, 1370 1st Animals (600 MYA) Jan 1, 1375 1st Land Plants (475 MYA) Jan 1, 1380 Age of Dinosaurs (245 MYA - 66 MYA) Jan 1, 1395 1st Mammals (200 MYA) Jan 1, 1405 1st Birds (150 MYA) Jan 1, 1495 Aristotle's Classification of Life (2,300 YA) Jan 1, 1595 1st Microscopes Jan 1, 1665 1st Cell Discovered (Hooke) Jan 1, 1668 Redi's Experiment Jan 1, 1676 1st Cells Discovered (Leeuwenhoek) Jan 1, 1758 Linnaeus's Hierarchy of Life Jan 1, 1767 Spallanzani's Experiment Jan 1, 1796 Cuvier's Catastrophism Jan 1, 1801 Lamarck's Theory of Evolution Jan 1, 1830 Lyell's Uniformitarianism Jan 1, 1838 Cell Theory (Schleiden) Jan 1, 1839 Cell Theory (Schwann) Jan 1, 1855 Cell Theory (Virchow) Jan 1, 1856 Mendel's Genetic Experiments Nov 24, 1859 Darwin's Origin of Species Jan 1, 1864 Pasteur's Experiment Jan 1, 1908 Hardy-Weinberg Theorem Jan 1, 1924 Oparin Hypothesis Jan 1, 1942 Mayr's Biological Species Concept Jan 1, 1953 Miller-Urey Experiment Jan 1, 1953 Discovery of DNA Structure (Watson and Crick) Jan 1, 1957 Microspheres and coacervates (Sidney Fox) Jan 1, 1967 Endosymbiosis (Lynn Margulis) Jan 1, 1980 Chech- Ribozymes Jan 1, 2004 Human Genome Sequenced