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Robet Brown discovered and named the nucleus
Robert Brown was a Scottish Botanical Scientist who was studying orchid pollen, and discovered and named the nucleus. -
Matthias Schleiden: plants are all made of cells
He was one of the three people who have been credited with the idea of cell theory. He stated that all plants are made out of cells. -
Theodor Schwann: all animals made of cells
Schwann discovered thet all animals are made of cells. -
Rudolph Virchow: all cells only come from living cells
Rudolph Virchow has been accused of plagerizing Robert Remak's theory, Remak was a Jew in Germany, so he wasn't given credit. -
Mendel uses plants how show genes control heredity
Using pea plants ,Gregor Mendel, shoes how genes show heredity.By 1900 his work becomes the foundation of the study of genes or genetics. -
electron microscope invented
The electron microscope makes it possible to magnify objects up to 1 million times and be able to see atoms -
Watson and Circk show that the structure of DNA is a double helix.
James Watson and Fancis Crick show that the structure of DNA is a double helix. -
scientists clone a sheep named Dolly
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The Human Genome project finishes a map of the human body
This allows scientists to treat diseases at a cellular level, where they begin
