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