History

Question 1

Term “Molecular Biology”

Answer 1

Warren Weaver

Question 2

Father of Modern Genetics

Answer 2

Gregor Mendel

Question 3

Nuclein

Answer 3

Friedrich Miescher

Question 4

Transforming (S. pneumoniae)

Answer 4

Frederick Grifith

Question 5

Transforming (Enzymes)

Answer 5

Oswald Avery, Colin McLeod and Maclyn McCarty

Question 6

Transforming (Bacteriophage)

Answer 6

Alfred Hershey and Martha Chase

Question 7

Phosphate - sugar - base, Ribose, Deoxyribose, 1st fit together

Answer 7

Phoebus Levene

Question 8

Nucleotide Quantities (A=T, C=G)

Answer 8

Erwin Chargaff

Question 9

X-Ray Crystallography (Photo 51)

Answer 9

Rosalind Franklin, Raymond Gosling, Maurice Wilkin

Question 10

Recruited Rosalind Franklin

Answer 10

John Randall

Question 11

Semiconservative DNA Replication

Answer 11

Matthew Meselson and Franklin Stahl

Question 12

Central Dogma of Molecular Biology

Answer 12

Francis Crick

Question 13

Chromosome Theory

Answer 13

Thomas Hunt Morgan

Question 14

X-ray, Genetic Mutations

Answer 14

Hermann J. Muller

Question 15

Transposons

Answer 15

Barbara McClintock

Question 16

DNA polymerase I, Enzymatic Synthesis of DNA

Answer 16

Arthur Kornberg

Question 17

Enzymatic Synthesis of RNA

Answer 17

Severo Ochoa

Question 18

Messenger RNA

Answer 18

Francois Jacob, Andrew Lwoff & Jacques Monod

Question 19

Unlocked Genetic Code

Answer 19

Marshall Nirenberg, Har Gobind Khorana, Philip Leder & Heinrich Matthaei

Question 20

Transfer RNA

Answer 20

Robert Holley

Question 21

Restriction Endonucleases

Answer 21

Meselson, Werner Asber, Daniel Nathans & Hamilton Smith

Question 22

Recombinant DNA technology, DNA Manipulation

Answer 22

Paul Berg, Stanley Cohen, Herbert Boyer

Question 23

DNA Sequencing

Answer 23

Frederick Sanger

Question 24

Reverse Transcriptase Enzyme

Answer 24

David Baltimore, Renato Dulbeco & Howard Temin

Question 25

Phylogenetic taxonomy of 16s rRNA resulting to the “tree of life”

Answer 25

Carl Woese

Question 26

existence of introns and exons, RNA world as the origins of life.

Answer 26

Walter Gilbert & Allan Maxam

Question 27

Ribozymes

Answer 27

Thomas Cech & Sidney Altman

Question 28

Human Genome Project

Answer 28

James Watson

Question 29

Knockout Mice Technique

Answer 29

Mario Capecchi, Martin Evans, Oliver Smithies

Question 30

PCR

Answer 30

Kary Mullis

Question 31

RNA interference (RNAi)

Answer 31

Craig Mello & Andrew Fire

Question 32

Crystal structure of the ribosome

Answer 32

Thomas Steitz

Question 33

CRISPR

Answer 33

Emmanuelle, Charpentier, Jennifer Anne, Doudna