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Milestones in DNA history


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1.

The scientist who created the first recombinant DNA molecules :

  Paul Berg

  Ian Wilmut

  James Shapiero

  Howard Temin

  Half-n-half Clue
 

2.

The scientist who reported that DNA composition is species specific was :

  Herbert Boyer

  Sidney Brenner

  Hamilton Smith

  Erwin Chargaff

  Half-n-half Clue
 

3.

The scientist(s) who developed a technique to sequence DNA and later won a Nobel prize for their achievement in 1980 is(are) :

  Arnold Levine and Gerald Edelman

  Harold Varmus and Rodney Porter

  Clara Bloomfield

  Walter Gilbert and Frederick Sanger

  Half-n-half Clue
 

4.

The first organism ever to be cloned from adult cells was :

  Tadpoles

  Northern Leopard frogs

  A cow

  Dolly, the sheep

  Half-n-half Clue
 

5.

Proof of the model of DNA replication suggested by Watson and Crick came from the experiments of :

  George Beadle and Edward Tatum

  Sidney Brenner and Francis Crick

  Stanley Cohen and Herbert Boyer

  M. S. Meselson and F. W. Stahl

  Half-n-half Clue
 

6.

The scientist who first showed that genetic material is a heat stable chemical is :

  Franklin Griffith

  Oswald Avery

  Erwin Chargaff

  Friedrich Miescher

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7.

One of the surprises uncovered by the Human Genome project was the surprisingly small number of genes that humans possess. This number is approximately :

  80000

  35000

  60000

  10000

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