Multiple choice

Which of the following pairs of 'Biochemists - landmark discovery' is/are incorrectly matched?

P. Dorothy Hodgkin - RNA interference Q. Craig C. Mello - Structures of penicillin and vitamin B-12 R. Viscount de Duve - Peroxisome and lysosome

  1. Only P

  2. Only Q

  3. Both P and Q

  4. Both Q and R

  5. All of these

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C Correct answer
Explanation

Dorothy Hodgkin was a British biochemist credited with the development of protein crystallography. Hodgkin is particularly noted for discovering three-dimensional biomolecular structures including vitamin B-12, insulin and penicillin. She was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1964 for the structure illustration of vitamin B-12. Andrew Z. Fire and Craig C. Mello was awarded the Nobel Prize for their discovery of RNA interference - gene silencing by double-stranded RNA in 2006. Viscount de Duve was a Nobel Prize-winning Belgian cytologist and biochemist. He made serendipitous discoveries of two cell organelles, peroxisome and lysosome, for which he shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1974 with Albert Claude and George E. Palade for their discoveries concerning the structural and functional organisation of the cell.