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