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Mendel's paper about genetics is published. These include units about inheritance in pairs, dominance and recessiveness, and more
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DNA, which was first called nuclein, was discovered by Friedrich Miescher as a subsatance found in the nuclei
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Mendels experiments, from 34 years earlier, are redone and confirmed by Dutch, German, Australian scientists.
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The first human disease that came from genetic causes.
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The chromosome theory of heredity is confirmed in studies of fly eye color inheritance by T.H. Morgan
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DNA is in the shape of a double helix with nucleotide chains and a base pairing
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The first cloning of a mammal, Dolly the sheep,is performed by Ian Wilmut
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PCR is developed by Kary Mullis.
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Controversies continue over human and animal cloning, research on stem cells, and genetic modification of crops.
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The genetic code is cracked by a number of researchers using RNA homopolymer and heteropolymer experiments as well as tRNA labeling experiments.
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