WHO IS WHO IN BIOTECHNOLOGY..................................

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