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2004 Rat

2002 Mouse

2001 30,000 Genes

2000 The Human Genome

1999 Fruit Fly

1998 Worm

1996 An Extremophile

1996 Yeast

1995 Haemophilus

1991 Venter

1986 Human Genome

1986 Hood

1983 Mullis

1978 Botstein

1977 Gilbert & Sanger

1973 Boyer & Cohen

1972 Berg

1970 Smith

1970 Temin & Baltimore

1969 Beckwith

1967 Weiss & Green

1961 Jacob & Monod

1961 Nirenberg

1960 mRNA

1957 Crick

1956 Kornberg

1953 Crick & Watson

1950 Chargaff

1944 Avery

1943 Delbruck & Luria

1941 Beadle & Tatum

1934 Bernal

1927 Muller

1913 Sturtevant

1910 Morgan

1909 Johannsen

1908 Garrod

1904 Bateson

1902 Boveri & Sutton

1900 Rediscover Mendel

1888 Boveri

1882 Flemming

1876 Galton

1869 Miescher

1866 Mendel

1859 Darwin

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Genetics and Genomics Timeline

1943

Max Delbrück and Salvador Luria

Employing bacteriophages, a type of virus that invades bacteria, Max Delbrück and Salvador Luria begin the study of bacterial genetics.

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