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William Harvey suggests that all living things originate from eggs.
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JR Camerarius does pollination experiments and discovers sex in flowering plants
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CV Linnaeus proposes the taxonomic system including the naming of Homo sapiens
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Charles Darwin published Origins of Species.
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Gregor Mendel published the results of his investigations of the inheritance of “factors” in pea plants
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Walter Sutton closed the gap between cell morphology and heredity
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Chromosomes were discovered to be heredity units
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Thomas Hunt Morgan shows that genes reside on chromosomes
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Physical changes in genes are called mutations
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Edward Lawrie Tatum and George Wells Beadle show that genes code for proteins
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Rosalind Franklin Obtained sharp x-ray diffraction photographs of DNA
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DNA structure is resolved to be a double helix by James Watson and Francis Crick
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Jo Hin Tjio and Albert Levan established the correct chromosome number in humans to be 46
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DNA is sequenced for the first time by Fred Sanger, Walter Gilbert and Allan Maxam
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Human chromosome 22 becomes first one to be sequenced completely
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First draft sequences of human genome are released simultaneously by the Human Genome Project and Celera Genomics
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Successful completion of Human Genome Project with 99% of the genome sequenced to a 99.99% accuracy