HISTORY OF BIOTECHNOLOGY by Dane Louise Inocencio

History Through the years

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Through the years, Biotechnology engineering has been used to make the world as we know it casier to live. Dating back to around 40,000 years ago, it's still being improved on today. Now let's go back in time and see what biotech engineering as changed the world we live in.

6,000 years ago

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- Yeast Fermentation was used in the baking of bread and the brewing of beer and other drinks.

1322

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- The Arabs begin employing artificial insemination in selective horse breeding.

1973

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- Stanley Cohen and Herbert Boyer harness bacteria created via fine-tuned techniques to reproduce new synthetic DNA to cutting and joining DNA fragments.

1997

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- Dr. Ian Wilmut famous for cloning Dolly the sheep from an adult cell, is presented in Scotland.

2002

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- Genomic sequence completed of the main pathogen of rice, a fungus that destorys a quantity of rice that could feed 60 million people annually.

1675

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- Antonie Van Leeuwenhoek discovers bacteria using a simple microscope.

1856-1863

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- Gregor Mendel (Father of Genetics) conducted first genetics testing using pea plants, which took him eight years.

1870's

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- Louis Pasteur disproved the notion of spontaneous generation, describing the role of bacteria in spoilage and the scientific basis for fermentation created the rabies vaccine.

1665

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- Robert Hooke invented the compound light microscope and first to observed cells in a cork.

1953

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- James Watson and Francis Crick made the discovery of the shape of the double helix structure of DNA using X-ray phtographs.

1972

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- Paul Berg (Stanford university Scientist) who first developed recombinant DNA technology, a method for the insertion of genetic material from one organism into another.