Historical Biotechnology

  • Hooke invented the Microscope

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    Biotech History

  • The scientist Robert Hooke removed a very thin slice of cork and examined it under the microscope.

    The scientist Robert Hooke removed a very thin slice of cork and examined it under the microscope.
  • Leeuwenhooke started to study bacteria

  • People began to make alot of progress in developing new varieties of plants, which was quite a feast considering they didnt know how traits were passed from one generation to the next.

  • An austrian monk named Gregor Mendel developed a theory of heredity.

  • Louis Pastour kept things from getting spolied. Pasturaztion of milk, to keep it from spoling.

  • Scottish scientist Alexander Flemming was studying bacteria, and found penicillan.

  • when stem cells came out, used in animals.

  • Added a protective agent that allowed semen to be frozen... it helped cause without it semen would die.

  • Watson & Crick developed the double helix module.

  • Pow Beng (recomninant dna)

  • Genetic Engineering