The term "genetic engineering" was coined in Jack Williamson's science fiction novel Dragon's Island, published in 1951, [2] two years before James Watson and Francis Crick showed that DNA could be the medium of transmission of genetic information. | The term "genetic engineering" was coined in Jack Williamson's science fiction novel Dragon's Island, published in 1951, [2] two years before James Watson and Francis Crick showed that DNA could be the medium of transmission of genetic information. |