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Biotechnology Scientists
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Robert Hooke
He discovered cells, which forever changed science and biotechnology. -
Leeuwenhoek
He discovered protozoa and bacteria, which was a large step for the evolution of science. -
Escherichia
He discovered coli bacterium, which is currently used for many different cases of biotechnology. -
Walter Sutton
He discovered that hereditary information may possibly be linked to chromosomes. -
Karoly Ereky
He coined the term biotechnology. -
Hermann Muller
Discovers from experiments on fruit flies, that X-rays can cause genetic mutations. -
Sir Alexander Fleming
He discovers the first antibiotic, penicillin, by noticing that it, as a mold, kills bacteria. -
George Beadle and Edward Tatum
Thought that a specific, single gene controlled one specific enzyme. -
Oswald Avery, Colin MacLeod, and Maclyn McCarthy
Displayed that DNA holds the hereditary information for all living things. -
Rosalind Franklin and Maurice Wilkins
They studied X-ray crystallography and its relation to DNA -
Ian Wilmut
He clones lambs from an embryo that was only 9 days old. -
Ian Wilmut
His sheep that he cloned, Dolly, was finally born. -
Alan Coleman
He cloned pigs that were born in 2000.
