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1903
 
    
In a paper to a congress in Madrid, on the 'psychology and psychopathology of animals', Ivan Pavlov announces his discovery of the conditioned reflex       
1905
 
     
German biologists Fritz Schaudinn and Erich Hoffmann discover the micro-organism Treponema pallidum which causes syphilis        
1905
 
     
English physiologists William Bayliss and Ernest Starling coin the word 'hormone' for glandular secretions into the bloodstream        
1906
 
    
English biologist William Bateson uses the word 'genetics' to describe the phenomenon of heredity and variation       
1909
 
    
Karl Landsteiner classifies the main human blood groups as A, B, AB and O       
1910
 
    
US geneticist Thomas Hunt Morgan establishes the chromosome theory of heredity through his study of the fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster       
1914
 
   
Martha, 29 years old and the last passenger pigeon in the world, dies in the Cincinnati zoo in Ohio      
1922
 
    
Canadian physiologists Frederick Banting and Charles Best isolate insulin from the pancreas for the treatment of diabetes       
1925
 
    
Biology teacher John Scopes is prosecuted for breaking state law by teaching evolution to his class of children in Dayton, Tennessee       
1927
 
    
Austrian zoologist Karl von Frisch demonstrates that bees communicate the whereabouts of food by means of a dance