DNA Timeline

Charles Darwin publishes The Origin of Species

Aug 3, 1859

Gregor Mendel discovers the basic principles of genetics

Jan 9, 1866

first person to shed light on the way in which characteristics are passed down the generations.

Friedrich Miescher identifies "nuclein"

Jun 9, 1869

Miescher's original plan had been to isolate and characterise the protein components of white blood cells.

Sir Archibald Edward Garrod is the first to associate Mendel's theories with a human disease

Mar 9, 1902

Sir Archibald Edward Garrod became the first person to associate Mendel's theories with a human disease

Thomas Morgan

Mar 9, 1911

created and founded genetic linkage.

Frederick Griffith

Mar 9, 1928

For an experiment he thought would help others point out that DNA is a molecule of inheritance.

Francis Crick

Mar 9, 1953

Figured out the structure of DNA

James D. Watson

Mar 9, 1953

Figured out the structure of DNA

Arthur Kornberg

Mar 9, 1957

produced DNA in a test tube.

Paul Berg

Mar 9, 1972

U.S. produced the first recombinant DNA molecule.

Thomas Hunt Morgan

Oct 9, 1980

He proved that genes or genetic material is carried on chromosomes by his experiments with fruit flies.

Gene therapy

Mar 9, 1990

used on patients for the first time.

FLAVR SAVR Tomato

Mar 9, 1994

Food And Drug Administration approves the sale of the
first genetically modified food.

Dolly the Sheep

Mar 9, 1997

the first adult animal clone.

E. coli Genome Sequenced

Mar 9, 1997

The complete sequence of the E. coli genome will help
scientists learn even more about this extensively studied
bacterium.

Roundworm C. elegans Sequenced

Mar 9, 1998

The first genome sequence of a multicellular organism, the
round worm, Caenorhabditis elegans, is completed.

Mouse Genome Working Draft Assembled andAnalyzed

Mar 9, 2002

The Mouse Genome Sequencing Consortium publishes an
assembled draft and comparative analysis of the mouse
genome. This milestone was originally planned for 2003.

Human genome complete

Mar 9, 2003

Final completion of the human genome sequence announced.

CRISPR

Mar 9, 2005

CRISPR spacers are phage DNA and extrachromosomal DNA such as plasmids

Oswald Avery identifies DNA as the 'transforming principle'

Mar 9, 2016

physician and medical researcher

DNA Isolated

Mar 9, 2016

Frederick Miescher isolates DNA from cells for the first time
and calls it “nuclein”.