S.S. Connection

Timeline of Biotechnology

4,000 B.C.

Egyptians use yeast to make leavened bread and wine

3000 B.C.

Peruvians select and cultivate potatoes that have made larger potatoes that last longer

1683

Invention of microscope by Antoin van Leeuwenhoek. Even though the microscopes are now stronger without her we may have never been able to view DNA closely

1861

Pasteurization is invented by Louis Pasteur. Rising the temperatures to kill bacteria has now come to the invention of pasteurization named after Louis Pasteur. Pasteurization has made milk, cheese, and butter fresher longer and safer.

1865

Gregor Mendel (Father of Genetics) begins the study of genetics by cross breeding the pea plant. Coming to the conclusion that specific traits will be passed from parent to offspring. Gregor helped us to understand why we look like our realatives.

1981

The first genetically engineered plant is reported.

Mice are successfully cloned.

1879

First hybrid corn was produced

1950

Barbara McClintock discovers jumping genes (a segment of bacterial DNA that can be trans located as a whole between chromosomal, phage, and plasma DNA in the absence of a complementary sequence in the host DNA.)

1953

James Watson and Francis Crick uncover the structure of DNA