The History Of Genetics

2002

   



- Humans and mice have about 200 genomic blocks that contain the same genes but are arranged on different chromosomes.
- In December 2002, the international Mouse Genome Sequencing Consortium completed a draft of the mouse genome and compared it to the human genome. Both species have about 30,000 genes, the researchers reported in Nature.

2004  

  

- A group of scientists, led by Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, Texas,  formed the Rat Genome Sequencing Project Consortium.
- In March 2004, they unveiled a “high-quality draft” of the rat genome, reporting in Nature that rats have many of the genes known to cause disease in humans.


2011

- After the death of Bin Laden, the US goverment decided not to release photos of the dead bin Laden, but base one the DNA evidence, US officials are 99.9% certain that the man they shot and killed in a compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan, was the long-sought al Qaeda leader.