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4000 BCE
Egyptians used yeast to leaven bread
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1300
crossbreeding of donkeys and horses to produce mules useful in transporting goods.
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father of genetic
Gregor Mendel revealed that genes pass down from generation to generation during an experiment of his using pea plants. -
DNA discovered
Friedrich Miescher became the first scientist to isolate “nuclein”or DNA -
structure of DNA
Francis Crick and James watson discovered that DNA was wrapped in a double helix structure, like a twisted rope ladder with billions of steps. -
'reading' Genes
Fredrich Sanger and his colleagues are credited for inventing mode to ‘read’ the proteins that make up our genetic code. -
discovery of CRISPR
Yoshizumi Ishino accidentally cloned CRISPR, before it had its name, he notes it down because it is unusal compared to other DNA.