BME 130 – Genomes Lecture 1 History of Genomics
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Charles Darwin On the Origin of Species 1859 Gregor Mendel Experiments in Plant Hybridisation 1866
Statistical genetics, law of ancestral heridity (basis of eugenics) Francis Galton Statistical genetics, law of ancestral heridity (basis of eugenics) 1876 Propose that hereditary factors reside on chromosomes and are inherited by Mendellian laws (1902) Walter Sutton Theodor Boveri
Archibald Garrod Alkaptonuria is not caused by bacterial infection, but is inherited (recessive), 1908 Thoman Hunt Morgan Experimental validation of chromosomal theory of inheritance, established fruit fly as model genetic organism, 1910
Crick enunciates central dogma of molecular biology 1957 James Watson and Francis Crick describe a model for the structure of DNA, 1953; Crick enunciates central dogma of molecular biology 1957
Marshall Nirenberg Cracks the genetic code by translating (first) poly-U, 1961
Paul Berg Creates first recombinant DNA molecules, 1972
Herber Boyer and Stan Cohen Clone DNA into foreign cells; birth of recombinant DNA technology, 1973
Walter Gilbert and Fred Sanger Develop methods to sequence DNA, 1977
Kary Mullis Invents the polymerase-chain reaction for DNA amplification, 1983
Scheibye-Alsing et al. (2009), Comp. Biology & Chemistry 33(2):121
Genomes! 1995 Hemophilus influenzae 1996 yeast 1998 worm 1999 fruit fly 2001 human 2002 mouse 2004 rat http://www.genomenewsnetwork.org/