irst ever) to compare two ideas that determined the cause of maggots. In 1673 Anton von Leeuwenhoek, described protozoa and bacteria and determined these organisms play a role in decay. Giacomo Pylarini was the first to practice inoculation in 1701, inoculating people against smallpox. In the century gap of 1750 –1850 farmers began to rotate crops to provide more fertile soil for future growth and Edward Jenner created the first vaccine in 1796. In 1809 Nicolas App!
             ert received a 12,000-franc prize from Napoleon for creating a method of canning sterilized food. In 1856, a way of keeping animal organs alive outside the body with circulating blood was developed. The discovery of mitosis was the first step in understanding cell division and reproduction. Louis Pasteur discovered a vaccine to treat rabies in 1885. Plants were hybridized in the ten years between 1920 and 1930 thus improving agriculture methods. Later in the 1940s, large-scale production of penicillin was achieved (Peters). These achievements, all great accomplishments of biotechnology in science history, are some of the more positive things harnessed by this technology.
             Antibiotics have played a large role in saving lives in the past century. They are chemicals that kill or stop the growth of infections caused by microbes. They are substances that are toxic to the disease-causing parasite but not to the host organism. Antibiotics were originally produced by bacteria and molds, but because of technology can now be produce
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