Multiple choice

Consider the following statements:

  1. Dr. Lalji Singh was the first Indian biochemist who got the Noble Prize for his contribution for his study in nucleic acids.
  2. Dolly was the first cloned sheep at the Roslin Institute of Scotland.

Which of the given statements is/are correct?

  1. Only 1

  2. Only 2

  3. Both 1 and 2

  4. Neither 1 nor 2
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B Correct answer
Explanation

Statement (1) is incorrect. Dr. Hargobind Khorana was a biochemist who shared the 1968 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine with Marshall W. Nirenberg and Robert W. Holley for research that helped to show how the nucleotides in nucleic acids, which carry the genetic code of the cell, control the cell's synthesis of proteins.

Statement (2) is correct. Dolly was the first cloned sheep at the Roslin Institute of Scotland who born in 1996.

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