By Patrick Peacock

Gregor Mendel's work with pea plants gave him enough information to establish the Laws of Heredity.
1) The Law of Segregation: a gene pair defines each inherited trait. Parental genes are randomly separated to the sex cells so that sex cells contain only one gene of the pair. Offspring therefore inherit one genetic allele from each parent when sex cells unite in fertilization. 2) The Law of Independent Assortment: Genes for different traits are sorted separately from one another so that the inheritance of one trait is not dependent on the inheritance of another. 3) The Law of Dominance: An organism with alternate forms of a gene will express the form that is dominant.

Friedrich Miescher isolated cell nuclei. Through this, scientists that followed after him scientists were able to discover DNA.

Machu Pichu, and ancient Indian city is discovered. In 1912, the Titanic sank.

Hermann Muller studied chromosomal mutations of fruit flies as a result of exposure to X-Rays Oswald Avery studied the pneumococcus virus and discovered the transformation principle of DNA.

Empire State Building completed Pearl Harbor was attacked and World War 2 began The T-shirt was put on sale.

Erwin Chargaff noticed that the amounts of adenine in samples of several different animals DNA, corresponded very close to those of thymine. Also with cytosine and guanine. Rosalind Franklin took the X-ray pictures that would lead Watson and Crick to discover the double-helix shape of DNA.

James Watson and Francis Crick discovered the first accurate representation of the DNA molecule, the double helix.

The birth of birth control, first pill produced. The popular comic strip Peanuts makes its debut. Remote control was invented.

Marshall Nirenberg , Har Gobind Khorana, and Robert Holley crack the genetic code by discovering how the mRNA language translates into the amino acid language. Francois Jacob and Jacques Monod, while studying bacteria, discovered an inhibitor that turns off certain gene production.

Berlin wall is built. Soviets send the first man into space. Malcolm X was assassinated.

Fred Sanger discovers the amino acid sequence in protein.

North Vietnam joins South Vietnam. China s terracotta army was discovered.

Christiane Nsslein-Volhard and Eric Weischaus studied fruit fly embryonic development and the position of proteins in the embryo. Craig Venter discovered and tagged over 30, 000 previously unknown genes

Iran-Iraq war begins. AIDS becomes an epidemic. First successful heart transplant. Oklahoma City bombing. Mad cow disease affects Britain. Berlin wall is torn down.

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