z NOBEL LAUREATES IN Qui DNA RESEARCH n u SANGRAM KESHARI LENKA & CHINMOYEE MAHARANA F 1. Who got the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1933) for discovering the famous concept that says chromosomes carry genes? a. Gregor Johann Mendel b. Thomas Hunt Morgan c. Aristotle d. Charles Darwin 5. Name the Nobel laureate (1959) for his discovery of the mechanisms in the biological 2. The concept of Mutations synthesis of ribonucleic acid and are changes in genetic deoxyribonucleic acid? information” awarded him a. Arthur Kornberg b. Har Gobind Khorana the Nobel Prize in 1946: c. Roger D. Kornberg d. James D. Watson a. Hermann Muller b. M.F. Perutz c. James D. Watson 6. Discovery of the DNA double helix fetched them d. Har Gobind Khorana the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (1962). a. Francis Crick, James Watson, Rosalind Elsie Franklin b. Francis Crick, James Watson and Maurice Willkins c. James Watson, Maurice Willkins, Rosalind Elsie Franklin 3. Identify the discoverer and d. Maurice Willkins, Rosalind Elsie Franklin and Francis Crick Nobel laureate of 1958 who found DNA in bacteria and viruses. a. Louis Pasteur b. Alexander Fleming c. Joshua Lederberg d. Roger D. Kornberg 4. A direct link between genes and enzymatic reactions, known as the famous “one gene, one enzyme” hypothesis, was put forth by these 7. They developed the theory of genetic regulatory scientists who shared the Nobel Prize in mechanisms, showing how, on a molecular level, Physiology or Medicine, 1958. certain genes are activated and suppressed. Name a. George Wells Beadle and Edward Lawrie Tatum these famous Nobel laureates of 1965. b. James D. Watson and Francis Crick a. Francis Crick, James Watson c. Maurice Wilkins and Rosalind Franklin b. George Wells Beadle and Edward Lawrie Tatum d. Marie Curie and Pierre Curie c. Francois Jacob, André Lwoff and Jacques Monod d. Arthur Kornberg and Har Gobind Khorana SCIENCE REPORTER, JUNE 2011 58 Fun Quiz 8. Identify the personality 13. The Nobel Prize in who was awarded the Nobel Physiology or Medicine Prize for his interpretation 1989 was awarded to them of the genetic code and its for their discovery of the function in protein cellular origin of synthesis with Robert W. retroviral oncogenes? Holley and Har Gobind a. Howard Martin Temin Khorana in 1959. and David Baltimore a. Francis Crick b. Michael Bishop and b. James Watson Harold Varmus c. Marshall W. Nirenberg c. M.F. Perutz and David Baltimore d. Roger D. Kornberg d. Francis Crick and James Watson The Nobel Prize in Physiology 9. 14. The Nobel Assembly at the Karolinska or Medicine (1969) was awarded to Institute in Stockholm, Sweden, awarded the him for discoveries concerning the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for 1993 genetic structure of viruses. jointly to them for their discovery of split genes. a. Joshua Lederberg a. Richard J. Roberts and Phillip A. Sharp b. Roger D. Kornberg b. Michael Bishop and Harold Varmus c. Marshall W. Nirenberg c. Howard Martin d. Alfred D. Hershe Temin and David Baltimore 10. They shared the Nobel Prize with Renato d. Roger D. Kornberg Dulbecco for their discoveries concerning “the and Alfred D. Hershey interaction between tumour viruses and the genetic material of the cell” in 1975. a. Roger D. Kornberg and Alfred D. Hershey b. Howard Martin Temin and David Baltimore 15. Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1995 c. M.F. Perutz and for their discoveries concerning the genetic David Baltimore control of early embryonic development was d. Maurice Wilkins and awarded to… Howard Martin Temin a. Francis Crick, James Watson and Maurice Willkins b. Edward Lewis, Christiane Nusslein-Volhard and Maurice Willkins 11. Name the English c. Edward Lewis, Christiane Nusslein-Volhard and biochemist who was twice Eric Wieschaus the recipient of the Nobel d. Christiane Nusslein-Volhard and Eric Wieschaus Prize for Chemistry. The 1980 and Francis Crick Nobel award was given to him for his determination of the sequence of the nucleotides in the DNA of a virus. a. Linus Pauling b. John Bardeen c. Frederick Sanger d. Maria Sk³odowska-Curie 12. In 1983, this Nobel laureate in Physiology or Medicine was awarded for ANSWERS: her discovery of mobile 1. b 2. a 3. c 4. a 5. a 6. b genetic elements popularly 7. c 8. c 9. d 10. b 11. c 12. d known as jumping genes? 13. b 14. a 15. c a. Barbara McClintock Contributed by Mr Sangram Keshari Lenka, National Research Centre on b. Rosalind Elsie Franklin Plant Biotechnology, Indian Agricultural Research Institute, New Delhi-110012, c. Maria Sk³odowska-Curie Email: [email protected]; and Mr Chinmoyee Maharana, National Brain d. Carol W. Greider Research Centre, Manesar-122050, Haryana, Email: [email protected] 59 SCIENCE REPORTER, JUNE 2011.