The term gene was coined by ________

(a)

Mendel

(b)

Lyon

(c)

Johannsen

(d)

Hershey

The classical concept of a gene was given by _______.

(a)

Mendel

(b)

Sutton

(c)

Johannsen

(d)

Hofmeister

One gene one enzyme hypothesis was proposed by Beadle and Tatum based on ________

(a)

Yeast

(b)

Drosophila

(c)

E. coli

(d)

Neurospora

Chromosomes were first observed by ________.

(a)

Miescher

(b)

Hofmeister

(c)

Avery

(d)

Griffith

The term nucleic acid was coined by ________.

(a)

Miescher

(b)

Hofmeister

(c)

Altman

(d)

Mcleod

Griffith's experiments proved that _________.

(a)

RNA is involved in protein synthesis

(b)

Bacteria undergoes asexual reproduction

(c)

DNA is the genetic material

(d)

DNA is made of two strands

The experiment conducted by Griffith was based on_________.

(a)

Transduction

(b)

Replication

(c)

Transformation

(d)

Conjucation

Human Genome was sequenced in ________.

(a)

1979

(b)

2015

(c)

1989

(d)

2001

___________ used radioactive labelled molecules to prove that DNA is the genetic material.

(a)

Hershey and Chase

(b)

Wilkins and Franklin

(c)

Griffith

(d)

Mcleod and Avery

One difference between deoxyribose and Ribose is due to________.

(a)

One Oxygen atom more in Ribose

(b)

Two Oxygen atoms less in Deoxyribose

(c)

Two Carbon atoms less in Ribose

(d)

Four Carbon atoms more in Ribose

_______is unique for DNA.

(a)

Adenine

(b)

Uracil

(c)

Guanine

(d)

Thymine

_______demonstrated that RNA is the genetic material in RNA containing viruses.

(a)

Avery

(b)

Conrat and Singer

(c)

Griffith

(d)

Watson and Crick

The concept of RNA world was independently proposed by __________

(a)

Orgel, Brick and Carl woese

(b)

Brick, Griffith and Crick

(c)

Wilkins and Franklin

(d)

Walter Gilbert

The distance between two consecutive base pairs in DNA is_________.

(a)

3.4 nm

(b)

0.34 nm

(c)

34.0 nm

(d)

31 x 10^-9

The term ___________ refers to DNA of Prokaryotes.

(a)

Nuclein

(b)

Ribozyme

(c)

Genophore

(d)

Nucleosome