Time Line of Biotechnology Developement Uptil 1833

Time Line of Biotechnology Developement Uptil 1833

8000 B.C.
Humans domesticate crops and livestock.
Potatoes first cultivated for food.

4000–2000 B.C.
Biotechnology first used to leaven bread and ferment
beer, using yeast (Egypt).
Production of cheese and fermentation of wine (Sumeria,
China and Egypt).
Babylonians control date palm breeding by selectively
pollinating female trees with pollen from certain male
trees.

500 B.C.
n First antibiotic: moldy soybean curds used to treat
boils (China).

A.D. 100
First insecticide: powdered chrysanthemums (China).

1322
An Arab chieftain first uses artificial insemination to
produce superior horses.

1590
Janssen invents the microscope.

1663
Hooke discovers existence of the cell.

1675
Leeuwenhoek discovers bacteria.

1761
Koelreuter reports successful crossbreeding of crop
plants in different species.

1797
Jenner inoculates a child with a viral vaccine to
protect him from smallpox.

1830–1833
1830—Proteins discovered.
1833—First enzyme discovered and isolated.