Jumat, 27 September 2013
Q: WHO COINED THE TERM "BIOTECHNOLOGY"?
A: HUNGARIAN ENGINEER KARL EREKY IN THE YEAR 1919.
Q: WHO IS KNOWN AS THE FATHER OF BIOTECHNOLOGY?
A: LOUIS PASTEUR.
Q: WHO GAVE BIRTH TO THE WORLD'S FIRST CLONED ANIMAL(DOLLY-A SHEEP)?
A: IAN WILMUT & KEITH CAMPBELL.
Q: WHO ARE CREDITED WITH THE DISCOVERY OF DE-OXY RIBONUCLEIC ACID(DNA)?
A: JAMES DEWEY WATSON(USA) , FRANCIS HARRY COMPTON CRICK(UK) & MAURICE WILKINS IN THE YEAR 1953.
Q: WHO IS CREDITED WITH THE INVENTION OF POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION (PCR) ?
A: KARY MULLIS.
Q: WHO IS HARGOBIND SINGH KHORANA ?
A: HE IS THE NOBEL LAUREATE (1968) WHO INTERPRETED THE GENETIC CODE AND THEIR FUNCTION IN PROTEIN SYNTHESIS.
Q: WHO IS KNOWN AS THE "FATHER OF GENETICS" ?
A:GREGOR JOHANN MENDEL.
Q: WHO IS SEYMOUR BENZER ?
A: HE IS THE INDIVIDUAL , WHO DISCOVERED THE THREE CONSTITUENTS OF A GENE - MUTON , RECON , CISTRON.
Q: WHO DISCOVERED THE rDNA (RECOMBINANT DNA) TECHNOLOGY ?
A: RECOMBINANT DNA TECHNOLOGY WAS DISCOVERED BY HERBERT BOYER , A GENETIC ENGINEER AND BIO-CHEMIST AND STANLEY COHEN IN THE YEAR 1973 , AN ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR.COHEN DISCOVERED THE METHOD OF ISOLATING AND CLONING THE GENES AND BOYER LOCATED THE ENZYME REQUIRED FOR THE TECHNIQUE.
Q: WHO IS KNOWN AS THE "FATHER OF PLANT TISSUE CULTURE" ?
A: GOTTLIEB HABERLANDT.
Q: WHO IS KNOWN AS THE "FATHER OF MICROBIOLOGY" ?
A: ANTONIE VAN LEEUWENHOEK.
Q: WHO IS KNOWN AS THE "FATHER OF TAXONOMY" ?
A: CAROLUS LINNAEUS (CARL VON LINNE).
Q: WHO IS KNOWN AS THE "FATHER OF PHARMACOLOGY" ?
A: OSWALD SCHMIEDEBERG.
Q: WHO IS KNOWN AS THE "MOTHER AND FATHER OF BIOINFORMATICS" ?
A: MARGARET OAKLEY DAYHOFF.
Q: WHO DISCOVERED THE TRANSPOSONS OR "JUMPING GENES" OR "PARASITIC DNA" ?
A: BARBARA MCCLINTOCK.
Q: WHO IS KNOWN AS THE "FATHER OF IMMUNOLOGY" ?
A: EDWARD ANTHONY JENNER.
Q: WHO ARE CREDITED WITH THE DISCOVERY OF REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE ?
A: HOWARD TEMIN AND DAVID BALTIMORE.
BELOW GIVEN ARE THE TWO LINKS FOR BIOTECHNOLOGY- WIKIPEDIA & DEPARTMENT OF BIOTECHNOLOGY (DBT) INDI.
WEBSITE :
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biotechnology
http://dbtindia.nic.in/index.asp
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page
