Biology
- The first complete genome is sequenced - a tiny bacterium-infecting virus called Phi X 174, with just 11 genes, and a little over 5000 base pairs.
- Carl Woese and George E. Fox classify archaea as a new, separate domain of life.
Read more about this topic: 1977 In Science
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