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Mendel writes the law of genetics.
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Darwin publishes his theory of the evolution of species.
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Describes the fundamental units of inheritance in peas
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It is discovered that the reproductive cells constitute a continuous lineage, different from the other cells of the body
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Rediscovery laws of Mendel
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Proposes the chromosomic theory of inheritance.
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It calls genetics to the science of inheritance
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Introduces the word gen
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Showed that x-rays included mutations
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Announces evolutionary neo-Darwinist theory
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Propose the hypothesis: a gene an enzyme
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the double helix structure of DNA is proposed
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Proposed the operon as a model for genetic regulation of bacteria
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Sharp and others discovered introns in the eukaryotic genes
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Cech and Altman discovered self-splicing of introns in DNA
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Brewer's yeast is the first eukaryotic genome
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The first draft of the human genome is published. Start of the post-genome era
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Transformation of human skin cells into embryonic stem cells
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Craig Venter and his team announce in the magazine "Science" the creation of the first synthetic cell
