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May-Final with Advt..Pmd

May-Final with Advt..Pmd

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1. Elizabeth H. BlackburnBlackburn, Carol W. Greider and Jack W. Szostak were awarded in 2009 for the discovery of (a) How are protected by and NOBEL PRIZES the enzyme telomerase? (b) Human Immunodeficiency (HIV) DANISH SHAHAB & ZOOFISHAN (c) Jumping (d) None of the above 4. Andrew Z. Fire & Craig C. Mello (2006) were awarded for their work on (a) Discovery of the genetic principle for generation of antibody diversity (b) Role played by genes in (c) Discovery of RNA interference- silencing by double-stranded RNA (d) Both ‘a’ and ‘b’

2. The Nobel Prize for or 2008 was given for two different discoveries as ‘for his discovery of human causing cervical ’ and ‘for their discovery of human immunodeficiency virus’ to (a) Edward B. Lewis and Edmond H. Fisher respectively (b) Edmond H. Fischer and Edwin G. Krebs respectively (c) and Françoise Barré-Sinoussi with respectively (d) None of the above

5. Berry J. Marshell and J. (2005) got Nobel Prize for (a) Discovery of the bacterium Helicobacter pylori (b) Discovery concerning MRI (c) Discovery of prion (d) Discovery of virions 3. Mario Capechi, Martin J. Evans and (2007) got Nobel Prize for discovering the 6. and Linda B. Buck (2004) shared the principles for introducing specific gene Nobel Prize for the discovery of modifications in mice by the use of embryonic (a) and mode of action of oxidation enzymes stem cells under the category (b) Large family (comprising of 1,000 different genes) of (a) Physiology or Medicine (b) Peace odorant receptors (c) Chemistry (d) None of the above (c) Discoveries concerning yellow fever and how to combat it (d) None of the above

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7. Who shared Nobel Prize on genetic regulation of 11. Who got the Nobel Prize jointly organ development and programmed cell death? for the discovery of the cellular (a) Paul C. Lauterberg and Sir (2005) origin of retroviral oncogenes (b) Sydney Berner, H. Robert Harvitz and John E. Sulston in 1989? (2002) (a) J. Michael Bishop and H.E. (c) Berry J. Marshall and J. Robin Warren (2005) Varmus (d) None of the above (b) Joseph E. Murray and E.D. Thomas (1990) (c) (d) Bert Saksmann

12. Barbara McClintock (1983) got Nobel Prize for the discovery of (a) (jumping genes) (b) Ultra structure of t-RNA (c) Both ‘a’ and ‘b’ 8. Stanley B. Prusiner (1997) was awarded the Nobel (d) None of the above Prize for the discovery of (a) Synthetic compounds that inhibit action of certain body substances, 13. Who got the Nobel Prize jointly for the discovery of especially their action on vascular reverse transcription in 1975? system and skeletal muscles (a) J.D. Watson and F.H.C. Crick (b) Inducer (b) R.W. Holly, Hargovind Khorana and M.W. Nirenberg (c) Prions - a new biological principle (c) Muller of infection (d) H.M. Temin, D. Baltimore, and R. Dulbecco (d) None of the above 14. Alfred D. Hershey (1969) got Nobel Prize for the work relating to 9. Scientist who shared Nobel Prize (a) Replication mechanism and with Philip A. Sharp in 1993 for genetic structure of viruses the discovery of split genes was (b) Mechanism of gene jumping (a) Richard J. Roberts (c) Mechanism of hormone action (b) Edward B. Lewis (d) Structural and functional (c) Stanley B. Prusiner organization of cell (d)

15. R.W. Holly, H.G. Khorana and M.W. Nirenberg (1968) shared the prize jointly for (a) Interpretation of genetic code and its function in protein synthesis (b) Double helical model of DNA (c) Structure of t-RNA (d) None on the above

10. Edmond H. Fischer and Edwin G. Krebs (1992) were awarded Nobel Prize for discoveries (a) Concerning the mechanism and regulation of ANSWERS: cholesterol and fatty acid metabolism 1. a 2. c 3. a 4. c 5. a 6. b (b) Concerning the mechanisms of the action of 7. b 8. c 9. a 10. c 11. a 12. a hormones 13. d 14. a 15. a (c) Concerning reversible protein phosphorylation as a biological regulatory mechanism Contributed by Danish Shahab and Zoofishan, Department of , AMU, Aligarh-202002; E-mail: [email protected] & [email protected] SCIENCE REPORTER, May 2010 59

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