100 Greatest Discoveries

Bill Nye walks viewers through various areas of science to show how far they've come through their beginnings until modern times.

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Status	Ended
Original Name	100 Greatest Discoveries
First Air Date	December 8, 2004
Last Air Date	February 2, 2005
Seasons	1
Episodes	8
Episode Runtime	45min
Language	English
Original Language	English
Production Countries	—
Production Companies	thinkfilm
Networks	Science

S01E08

Genetics

Thirteen vital contributions to a field tht is now a cornerstone of the life sciences: Gregor Mendel's rules of heredity, Thomas Hunt Morgan's detection of chromosomal gene location, George Beadle and Edward Tatum's "one gene, one enzyme" concept, Barbara McClintock's discovery of transposons, the acceptance of DNA as the basis of genetic information, James Watson and Francis Crick's double helix, Marshall Nirenberg's genetic code, the discoveries of RNA, restriction enzymes, RNA splicing and RNA interference, Alec Jeffreys' DNA identification technique, and the Human Genome Project.

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