Historia Evolutiva De La Biología Molecular

Historical Timeline (Evolución Histórica)


|Date |Event |
|1750 B.C. |The Sumerians brew beer. |
|500 B.C. |The Chinese use moldy soybean curds as an antibiotic totreat boils. |
|250 B.C. |The Greeks practice crop rotation to maximize soil fertility. |
|100 A.D. |Powdered chrysanthemum is used in China as an insecticide. |
|1590 |The microscope is invented by Janssen.|
|1663 |Cells are first described by Hooke. |
|1675 |Leeuwenhoek discovers bacteria. |
|1797 |Jenner inoculates achild with a viral vaccine to protect him from smallpox. |
|1802 |The word "biology" first appears. |
|1830 |Proteins are discovered. |
|1833 |Thefirst enzymes are isolated. |
|1855 |The Escherichia coli bacterium is discovered. It later becomes a major research, development and production tool for |
| |biotechnology. |
||Pasteur begins working with yeast, eventually proving they are living organisms. |
|1863 |Mendel, in his study of peas, discovers that traits were transmitted from parents to progeny by discrete, independent |
| |units, later called genes. His observations laid the groundwork for the field of genetics.|
|1869 |Miescher discovers DNA in the sperm of trout. |
|1877 |A technique for staining and identifying bacteria is developed by Koch. |
|1878 |The first centrifuge is developed by Laval.|
| |The term "microbe" is first used. |
|1879 |Flemming discovers chromatin, the rod-like structures inside the cell nucleus that later came to be called chromosomes. |
|1883 |The first rabies vaccine is developed.|
|1902 |The term "immunology" first appears. |
|1906 |The term "genetics" is introduced. |
|1911 |The first cancer-causing virus is discovered by Rous.|
|1914 |Bacteria are used to treat sewage for the first time, in Manchester, England. |
|1915 |Phages, or bacterial viruses, are discovered. |
|1919 |The word "biotechnology" is first used by...