Multiple choice

Which of the following pairs of ‘scientist and corresponding discovery’ is not correctly matched?

  1. Kary Mullis - polymerised chain reaction

  2. Paul Berg - father of genetic engineering

  3. Stanley Cohen and Herbert Boyer - isolate antibiotic resistant gene

  4. Arbar, Smith and Nathan - discoveries concerning new mechanisms for the origin and dissemination of infectious diseases

  5. Willium Hays and Joshua Lederberg - plasmid
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Explanation

Werner Arber, Daniel Nathans and Hamilton O. Smith received the Nobel Prize in 1978 for the discovery of restriction enzymes and their application to problems of molecular genetics. Baruch S. Blumberg and D. Carleton Gajdusek received the Nobel Prize in 1976 for their discoveries concerning new mechanisms for the origin and dissemination of infectious diseases.

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