RICHELLE P.

MASING
BSE- Science

Activity:
Describe the history of genetics using a timeline chart. Use the rubrics as a guide in
constructing the chart.

HISTORICAL BACKGROUND OF GENETICS

Golden Age of Greek

Prehistory
Culture

Humans – traits of offspring

Evidences of manipulation came from their parents and
of genetic composition of it is called “heredity”.
species. Hippocratic School of
Medicine [500- 400 BC].

Domestication of animals and

plants- Selective breeding.
Cultivation of plants- selection Aristotle [ 384-322 BC]
of genetic variants from the
wild. § Hindu sacred writings
about sibling differences.

1600-1850 1800 1900

Sperm & egg hadn’t William Harvey Charles Darwin

(1578- 1657) - proposed
been observed in introduced the theory Natural
animals. of epigenesis Selection

1920's 1944 1953

Major components Showed that DNA Discovery of double

of chromosomes was the carrier of helex
were known genetic info.
 1996 1999 2000

The story of Dolly Glofish Genetic variation

2002

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Assessment

1. If genetics was never been discovered, what do you think will happen to humans
and other living organisms? (5 pts)
 If genetics was never been discovered, we will not know that it can help us to
understand why people look the way they do and why some people are more
prone to certain disease that others. We will not also know that it helps a lot to
the health-care professionals to identify certain conditions in babies before they
born using techniques such as prenatal testing.
 Also, we will not know that gene is the basic heredity in a living organism and it
comes from our parents. We will not know that it contains the data needed to
build and maintain cells and pass genetic information to offspring.

2. Write a reflection on what you have learned in this lesson. (5 points)

 In this lesson I learned that, genetics has historical background that consist
information needed to learn about it. It gives the learners interest to learn and
get curious about the flow of genetics and notice the advantage of having
knowledge about genes/ genetics. I also learned that gene is the basic heredity of
a living organisms and can help us understand why a person got ill or disease.