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Only NCERT (Not complete, draft) IMP – Years, discovery and scientist.

1. 1770: Joseph Priestley - Role of air in growth of green plant.


2. 1774: Joseph Priestley - Discovered O2
3. 1831: Robert Brown - 1st discovered and described nucleus.
4. 1838: Schleiden (German Botanist) – plants cell
5. 1839: Schwann(British Zoologist) - hypothesis
6. 1855: Rudolf Virchow - Omnis cellula-e-cellula
7. 1856 - 1863 : Mendal experiment (7 years) published - 1865
8. 1866: Langdon Down - Down’s syndrome.
9. 1869: Friedrich Meischer - 1st identified DNA (nuclein).
10. 1891: Henking - Discovered X-body.
11. 1891: Fossil discovered in Java - Homo erectus.
12. 1892: Ivanowsky - Discovered virus.
13. 1898: Beijerinek - Contagium vivum fluidum (infectious living fluid).
14. 1898: Camillo Golgi - Discovered (observed) Golgi bodies
15. 1900: de Vries,Correns,Tschermak independently rediscovered Mendel’s results.
16. 1902: Chromosome movement during meiosis has been worked out.
17. 1905: Sutton Boveri - chromosome theory
18. 1905: Law of limiting factor (Blackmann). Based on law of minimum in 1840
(popularized by Liebig)
19. 1928: Fredrick Griffith - Transforming experiment
20. 1935: Stanley - Crystallised viruses.
21. 1938: Coelocanth fish caught in South Africa.
22. 1945: Fleming, Chain & Florey - Awarded Nobel prize.
23. 1951: Family planning programme started in India.
24. 1952: Hershey & Chase-experiment
25. 1953: Miller experiment
26. 1953: Watson & Crick - B-DNA model & replication scheme.
(Crick– central dogma. Baltimore, Temin – reverse transcription)
27. 1953: Palade : Discovered ribosome.
28. 1958: Meselson & Stahl -E.coli - semiconservative replication of DNA in PK
29. 1958:Taylor et al - Vicia faba proves semiconservative replication of DNA in EK
30. 1963: 2 enzymes which restricts growth of bacteriophage in E.coli were isolated.
31. 1969: Whittaker - Five kingdom classification.
32. 1971: Govt. of India legalized MTP. (Amendment act 2017)
33. 1971: Diener- Discovered Viroid (free RNA without capsid).
34. 1972: Singer & Nicolson - Fluid mosaic model.
35. 1972: Stanley Cohen & Herbert Boyer - Formed 1st recombinant DNA.
36. 1981: AIDS was 1st reported.
37. 1983: Eli Lily(American company) produces insulin in E.coli by r-DNA technology
38. 1990: Human genome project completed 2003
39. 1992: Biological Diversity (‘The Earth Summit’), Rio de Janeiro
40. 1997: Rice Tec granted patent over basmati.
41. 2002: World Summit on Sustainable Development, Johannesburg, (target
achieve by 2010)
42. May 2006: Chromosome 1 sequencing completed (last of 24)

- SOHAN PAL

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