1970s
A very common form of digital communication, invented by Ray Tomlinson in 1971.
What is email?
The first transgenic pest-protected crop to be in fields.
What is corn?
Technology increasingly used for activism in the 1990s.
What is the internet?
The names of the first two Mars rovers.
What are Spirit and Opportunity?
The first commercial portable audio player, invented in 1979 by Sony.
What is the Walkman?
In 1981 a transgenic mouse was created by putting a gene from a . . . . into its genome.
What is a rabbit?
The year that the World Wide Web launched.
What is 1990?
The percentage of a human genome sequence that the Human Genome Project was able to produce in 2003.
What is over 90%?
The first portable data storage device, introduced by IBM in 1971, which is now the “save” icon.
What is the floppy disk?
The number of animals it took to created one pound of insulin before synthetic insulin was created in 1981.
What is 23,500?
Name and species of the first cloned animal in 1996.
What is Dolly the sheep?
One of the body parts we are now able to grow using stem cells.
What is ear, bladder, or trachea?
A very small central processing unit first introduced by Intel in 1971.
What is the microprocessor?
What PCR stands for.
What is polymerase chain reaction?
The 13 year project that began in 1990 with the goal to sequence Human DNA.
What is the Human Genome Project?
The number of European volunteers for the Human Genome Project.
What is 19?
America's first space station, launched in 1973.
What is Skylab?
What the world’s first recombinant vaccine was primarily made from in 1986.
What are yeast cells?
The style of treatment introduced in 1997 used to combat the AIDs crisis.
What is cART / HAART?
The crater that Spirit landed in, which may have once been a lake.
What is Gusev Crater?