IMPORTANT DATES OF

NCERT BIOLOGY
1731 - Many people of Bishnoi community

sacrifice their lives saving trees (Jodhpur)

1770 - Priestley's experiment by Bell Jar, Mice &

Mint plant, Candle.

1774 - Discovery of oxygen by Joseph Priestley

1838 - Matthias Schleiden-Cell Theory

1829 - Theodore Schwann- Cell Theory

1850 - Before industrialization => more white

wing Moth

1854 - Julius von Sachs proved that glucose is

formed in photosynthesis & stored as starch.

1855 - "Omnis cellula cellula" by Rudolf Virchow

& complete the cell theory.

1856 - 1863 Mendel work on garden pea.

1860 - Hydroponics technique developed by

Julie Von Sache

1865 - Mendel publishes his work

on inheritance of character

1866 - Down's Syndrome discovered by

Langdon Down.

1869 - DNA as a acidic substance was 1st

identified by Friedrich Meischer & termed a

"Nuclein"

1891 - Fossils of Java man discovered in Java

- Henking discovered X-body (X

chromosome) in insect. (XO- type sex

determination)

1892 - Discovery of TMV by D.J. Ivanowsky

1898 - M.W. Beijerinck demonstrated

infectious nature of TMV

- Discovery of Golgi Body by Camillo Golgi.

1900 - Rediscovery of Mendel's work by -

• Hugo de Vries

• Karl Corrence

• Tschemark
IMPORTANT DATES OF
NCERT BIOLOGY
1902 - Chromosomal theory of inheritance given by

Sutton & Bovery.

1905 - Law of limiting factors for plants given by

Blackmann

1920 - After Industrialisation => more black moth

1928 - Frederick Griffith's Transformation experiment

on Streptococcus pneumonia bacteria

1933 – 1944 - Avery, Macleod McCarty used

transformation principle of Griffith's experiment &

concluded that DNA is genetic material.

1938 - Coelacanth/Lobe Fines caught in South Africa --->

Ancestor of amphibia.

1947 - At the time of our independence India's population,

was approximately

350 million .

1950s - Electron microscope invention

- Tissue culture started

1951 - Family planning was initiated

1952 - Hershey & Chase experiment more correctly

proved that DNA ie genetic material #unquivocal\proof

1953 - Discovery of ribosome by George Palade.

- S.L Miller Experiment of evolution.

- Double helical structure model of DNA given by

Watson & Crick.

1958 - Matthew Meselson of Franklin Stahl experiment (E.

coli in NH4CI medium) proved that DNA replication is

semiconservative )

- Taylor study on vicia faba plant (used radioactive

thymidind and proved semiconservative nature of DNA)

1960s - Green Revolution.

1963 - Restriction endonuclease isolated from E. coli.

1963 - Wheat varieties Sonalika f Kalyan Sona (High yield

& Disease resistant ) introduced in INDIA.

1966 - Derived semi dwarf varieties of rice introduced in

India.

1969 - R.H. Whittaker proposed FIVE-KINGDOM

Classification

1971 - Discovery of viroids by T.O. Diener

- Govt. of India legalised MTP.

1972 - Fluid Mosaic model of plasma membrane by Singer

& Nicolson

- 1st recombinant DNA developed by Stanley Cohen

and Herbert Boyer

- National committee for environmental planning

and Coordination was established.

- Wild life protection act in India.

IMPORTANT DATES OF
NCERT BIOLOGY
1974 - Water Act. & also Chipko

movement

1980s - Joint Forest movement

1981 - Air act.

- AIDS was fired reported

- Intrinsic growth rate of India

(r= 0.0205)

1983 - Eli Lilly American company

human Insulin from E. coli.

1984 - Bhopal Tragedy

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- Ministry of Environment amd

Forest.

OR
1986 - Environment Act (NEPA)

1987 - Noise included in air pollution

LD- Montreal protocol (Canada)

1988 - National Forest Policy

1989 - Montreal Protocol became

effective.

1990s - Delhi ranked 4th among 41

most polluted cities.

1990 - First clinical gene therapy was

given to 14 yr old girl with ADA

deficiency eye.

- Human Genome Project (HGP)

launched.