Exhibition themes

Through the Ages: From Neolithic times to the 21st century

• The cultural dilemma
• In the beginning: The first laboratory

• From wild wheat to cultivated wheat
• Food technologies become understandable
• Peas in the monastery garden / Mendel's rules of inheritance
• The fruit fly and genetics
• Biochemistry in heredity
• DNA – the amazing double helix
• The thread of life
• Nature teaches us methods of genetic engeneering
• A laboratory today

By way of example

• Harvest losses
• Origins of major crops
• Wheat cultivation
• Gene carriers and gene gun
• Laws and allergies
• Soya under discussion
• The potato under pressure
• Cassava and whitefly
• The grapevine and its enemies
• Plants and soil
• Corn – against borer and drought
• A bug crosses the Atlantic
• Genetic engineering – for animals as well
• Phages and milk factories
• Warning – pollen transmits genes
• Witches broom and cacao tree
• Rice against blindness
• There's a fungus among us

• Contemplating genetic engineering