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Charles Darwin publishes The Origin of Species.
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Gregor Mendel discovers the basic principles of genetics.
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Friedrich Miescher identifies "nuclein" .
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Gregor Mendel's pea plant research finally made its way into the wider scientific community.
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Sir Archibald Edward Garrod became the first person to associate Mendel's theories with a human disease.
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deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) was identified as the 'transforming principle'.
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identified DNA as the substance responsible for heredity
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the first person to sequence the bases in each codon
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decoded the genome of the first mammal
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DNA Worldwide and Eurofins Forensic discover identical twins have differences in their genetic makeup