1859 - Charles Darwin publishes The Origin of Species, 1866 - Gregor Mendel discovers the basic principles of genetics, 1869 - Friedrich Miescher identifies nuclein in the nucleus, 1900s - The Eugenics Movement- interest in the control of breeding humans with the best genes, 1952 - Rosalind Franklin photographs crystalised DNA fibres, 1953 - James Watson and Francis Crick discover the double helix structure of DNA, 1959 - Additional copy of chromosome 21 linked to Down’s Syndrome, 1965 - Marshall Nirenberg the first person to sequence mRNA, 1990 - The Human Genome Project begins, 1996 - Dolly the sheep is cloned, 2003 - The Human Genome Project is completed,

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