History of Biotechnology

By zfish95
  • Robert Hooke, Anton Leeuweenhoek

    Robert Hooke, Anton Leeuweenhoek

    Robert and Anton discovered cells using microscopes
  • Gregor Mendel

    Gregor Mendel

    Discovered simple laws of inheritance of traits which allowed him to predict outcome of crosses with certain traits.
  • Louis Pasteur

    Louis Pasteur

    Louis described the scientific basis for fermentation, wine making, and the brewing of beer. Established the science of microbiology and claimed that microorganisms were responsible for infectious diseases.
  • Johann Miescher

    Johann Miescher

    Discovered nucleic acid in white blood cells form pus. Led scientists to believe that DNA might be the inheritable material of an orgainism.
  • Thomas Hunt Morgan

    Thomas Hunt Morgan

    Discovered that genes were on chromosomes while studying fruit flies
  • Fred Griffith

    Fred Griffith

    Proved that geneic material could be moved form one strain of bacteria to another using mice.
  • Sir Alexander Fleming

    Sir Alexander Fleming

    He isolated penicillin from a fungus.
  • Chargaff

    Chargaff

    Showed that in DNA the number of units of adeinine equaled those of thymine and the number of units of cytosine equaled those of guanine,.
  • Bealdle and Tatum

    Bealdle and Tatum

    Proposed that one gene produces one enzyme. 1944 Avery, McCarty and Mcleod established that indeed DNA was the hereditary material that was transferred.
  • Hayes

    Hayes

    Discoverd plasmid DNA and DNA in bactieria
  • hershey and chase

    hershey and chase

    using their famous blender exmariment proved that viruses replicated using DNA
  • Rosalind Franklin and Maurice Wilkins

    Rosalind Franklin and Maurice Wilkins

    Established through X-ray crystallograph that DNA was indeed a double helix
  • Waston and Clark

    Waston and Clark

    discoverd the stucher of DNA
  • Walter gilbert

    Walter gilbert

    discoverd the mechanism of tgene expression through RNA
  • Arber, Nathans and Smith

    Arber, Nathans and Smith

    Discovered bacteriql restriction enzymes that cut DNA
  • Khorana and Nirenberg

    Khorana and Nirenberg

    Discoverd the 64 condons that code for 20 amino acids making up proteins.
  • Vinograd

    Vinograd

    DNA plasmids were isolated and purified
  • Madel and Higa

    Madel and Higa

    Responsible for the first transformation of the bacterium Escherichia coli
  • Boyer and Cohen

    Boyer and Cohen

    Cloning experiments were conducted.
  • Genetech

    Genetech

    Genentech the worlds first genetic engineering company was founded.
  • Paul Berg

    Paul Berg

    140 scientists met to draw up guidelines for work with recombinant DNA in microorganisms.
  • Paul berg

    Paul berg

    set up giudelines to work on recombant DNA
  • sanger and gilbert

    sanger and gilbert

    found away to sequince DNA
  • boyer

    boyer

    inserted insulin into E.coil
  • botstein

    botstein

    Restriction Fragment Lenght Plomorphish ids dna fragments
  • louis brown

    louis brown

    born viia vitro fertilization
  • U.S supreme court

    U.S supreme court

    genetically modifided life can be patented
  • ohio university

    ohio university

    first transgenic animals
  • Eli Lilly

    Eli Lilly

    placed human insulin in bacteria
  • schell chilton van montagu fraley and horch

    schell chilton van montagu fraley and horch

    Agrobacterium-mediated gene transfer in plants
  • kary mullis

    kary mullis

    invented polymerase chin reaction
  • feffries

    feffries

    applied RFLP in DNA for criminal cases
  • gene movement

    gene movement

    genes movied with gene gun
  • NIH

    NIH

    reviews safety guidlines for recombiant DNA
  • Andrew Fire

    Andrew Fire

    dicoverd RNA interferecnce ,slicing genes of C. elegans
  • kohler milstein and jerne

    kohler milstein and jerne

    monoclonal antibody technology
  • Maynard Olson

    Maynard Olson

    yeast artificial chromsomes
  • Ian wilmut

    Ian wilmut

    dolly the sheep
  • DNA microarry

    DNA microarry

    looking at the whole DNA chin
  • Dabiri and Garner

    Dabiri and Garner

    invented the atoumatic DNA squincer
  • ron breaker

    ron breaker

    cloned a gene that regulates gene exprestion
  • Human Genome

    finally finished the program