If Borders is selected in the draft, she won't be the first woman selected there, either. The Chicago White Sox selected Karey Schueler - daughter of Chisox general manager Ron - with their 43rd pick (of 49 in all) in the 1993 draft. Nor will Borders even be the first woman to play professional baseball.
The criteria for establishing a causative link between a particular microorganism and a particular disease were first proposed by Jacob Henle. true Viruses and bacteria were first cultured in the laboratory at about the same time.
Microbes such as E. coli and its viruses are called model systems because of their use in studies that reveal broad biological principles. Microbiologists provided most of the evidence that genes are made of DNA, and they worked out most of the major steps in DNA replication, transcription, and translation.