2.1 A time line of genetics: from Darwin to DNA Flashcards
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1853
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Darwin publishes the ‘origin’
2
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1853 - 1866
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Mendel formulates laws of inheritance
3
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1869
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Friedrich Mescher isolates nucleic acids (‘nuclein’) from pus
4
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1885
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Strasburger and Flemming describe chromosomes
5
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1900
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Mendel’s work rediscovered
6
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1902
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Sutton + Bover’s chromosome theory of heredity
7
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1904
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Morgan’s experiments with Drosophila reveal mutations
8
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1909
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Johansson introduces the term ‘gene’
9
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1928
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Griffith discovers ‘transforming principle’ in bacteria
10
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1944
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Avery et al identify DNA as the ‘transforming principle’
11
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1953
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Hershey and Chase experiments:
DNA as the genetic material in phage T2
Watson and Crick propose a structure for DNA
12
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1970s
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Fred Sanger develops dideoxy sequencing
13
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1972
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Paul Berg constructs 1st recombinant DNA
14
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1981
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Human mtDNA sequenced
15
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1986
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Kary Mulls develops PCR
