History of DNA
1859
Charles Darwin publishes On the Origin of Species, describing how life evolves through natural selection.
1865
GREGOR MENDEL
Mendel, a monk, presents his work on dominant and recessive genes after performing experiments on nearly 30,000 pea plants. He cross-pollinates pea plants to find out how traits like colour and texture pass from one generation to the next. He discovers that some traits always pass from parent to offspring, while others sometimes seem to skip a generation.
1869
FRIEDRICH MIESCHER
Miescher finds a strange substance while examining the
