History of Biotechnology

  • microscope

    Hook invented first microscope
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  • 1665

    Scientist Robert Hooke removed a thin slice of cork and examined it under the microscope. he foundlittle things that he called cells
  • 1675

    Leeuwenhoek found baccteria
  • 1870's

    Pastuer found pasturization of milk
  • late 1920's

    Scottish scientist Alexander Fleming was studying bacteria when one of his plates were contaminated with mold called penicillium
  • Watson and Crick

    DNA mode was found to be a double helix
  • 1962

    Watson and Crick ont the nobel peace prize