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10,000 BC

First cultivation of plants (farming) developed in Mesopotamia's “Fertile Crescent”12,000

BCCanine domestication starts

6000 BC 5000 BC

Domestication of the horse

7000 BCDomestication of the goat8000 BC

Domestication of cattle

Domestication of swine

Domestication of the sheep4000 BC 3000 BC 2000 BC

Egyptian produce bread and wine using yeast.

Rice cultivated in what is today Thailand.

1750 BC Sumerians brew beer

1000 BC 500 BC 1 AD

Moldy soybean curd found to be an antibiotic in China. Used to treat boils.

Greeks use crop rotation to maximize harvest.

Chrysanthemum powder used as insecticide in China.

1000 AD

1500 AD

Jensen invents light microscope

1663 AD Cells are first described by

Hooke. He used cork, as

in this image.

1600 AD

1700 AD

1675 AD Leeuwenhoek discovers bacteria.

1800 AD

1797 AD Jenner creates smallpox vaccine

1830 AD Proteins

are discovere

d.

1900 AD

1950 AD

2000 AD

1859 AD Charles Darwin publishes Origin of Species. This is the first text on his theory of evolution.

1863 AD Mendel, an Austrian monk, discovers genetics in his studies of sweet peas.

1919 AD The term Biotechnology is first used in Hungary.

1928 AD Fleming discovers penicillin, the antibiotic is born.

1953 AD Watson and Crick finally crack the DNA structure by forming the double helix.

1986 AD First field test of genetic engineered plants.

1996 AD Dolly the sheep born. First mammal produced through cloning.

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