It's a BioWorld! Poster
date: label: date made
content: ca 1990
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: This brightly colored poster shows a timeline of events in the history of genetics and biotechnology along the top and bottom edges. Events range from Mendel's experiments with pea plants on heredity in the mid-1800s to the first patent awarded for a genetically engineered mammal in 1988. The left and right edges of the poster list biotech companies and funders. The center of the poster depicts applications of biotechnology to medicine, agriculture, industry, and the environment. It was collected at the International Biotechnology Expo in 1990.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
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content: Medicine and Science: Biological Sciences
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content: Health & Medicine
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content: Biotechnology and Genetics
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content: Science & Mathematics
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content: Agriculture
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1990.3203.01
label: catalog number
content: 1990.3203.01
label: nonaccession number
content: 1990.3203
objectType: label: Object Name
content: poster
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: paper (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 68.6 cm x 68.6 cm; 27 in x 27 in