Scientists + Contributions

Question 1

Oparin

Answer 1

Coacervates, Conditions on primitive
earth were favourable for chemical evolution

Question 2

Stanley Miller & Harold Urey

Answer 2

Recreated
probable conditions on primitive earth

Question 3

Ernst Haeckel

Answer 3

Proposed the recapitulation theory

Question 4

Charles Darwin

Answer 4

Natural Selection

Question 5

Hugo de Vries

Answer 5

Mutation

Question 6

T. R. Malthus

Answer 6

Theory of Human Population
Growth/ Essays on population

Question 7

Alec Jeffreys

Answer 7

DNA finger printing

Question 8

Temin and Baltimore

Answer 8

Reverse transcription

Question 9

Jacob, Monad and Lwoff

Answer 9

proposed Lac operon.

Question 10

Watson and Crick

Answer 10

Structure of DNA

Question 11

Nirenberg and Khorana

Answer 11

Genetic code

Question 12

Benzer

Answer 12

Cistron, recon, muton

Question 13

Gregor Mendel

Answer 13

Father of genetics

Question 14

Sutton and Boveri

Answer 14

Chromosomal theory of
inheritance

Question 15

. Hugo de Vries, Correns and Tschermack

Answer 15

Rediscovered Mendelism

Question 16

T H Morgan

Answer 16

Linkage

Question 17

P Maheshwari

Answer 17

Plant tissue culture

Question 18

Henking

Answer 18

Discovered X-chromosome

Question 19

F. Meischer

Answer 19

Isolated nucleic acid from pus cells,
called Nuclein

Question 20

Chargaff

Answer 20

Rule of equivalence in DNA structure

Question 21

F. Griffith

Answer 21

Transformation in bacteria

Question 21

Avery, MacLeod and McCarty

Answer 21

DNA is the
genetic material

Question 22

Hershey and Chase

Answer 22

DNA is the genetic material

Question 23

Meselson and Stahl

Answer 23

Semi-conservative
replication of DNA

Question 24

G. Gamow

Answer 24

Triplet nature of codons

Question 25

S Ochoa

Answer 25

discovered polynucleotide phosphorylase

Question 26

Wallace

Answer 26

divided the Earth into biogeographical regions

Question 27

M S Swaminathan

Answer 27

Green revolution in India

Question 28

H Boyer

Answer 28

discovered Restriction Enzyme

Question 29

S Cohen

Answer 29

method to transfer plasmid DNA in host cells

Question 30

R. Mishra

Answer 30

Father of Indian Ecology

Question 31

E. Wilson

Answer 31

coined the term Biodiversity

Question 32

P Ehrlich

Answer 32

Rivet Popper Hypothesis

Question 33

Sanger

Answer 33

DNA/Protein sequencing