Multiple choice

Which of the following scientists performed the first successful organ transplants by using immunosuppressive agents?

  1. Francoise Barre-Sinoussi and Luc Montagnier

  2. Joseph E. Murray and E. Donnall Thomas

  3. Edmond H. Fisher and Edwin G. Krebs

  4. Peter Agre and Roderick MacKirron

  5. Andrew Fire and Craig Mello

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B Correct answer
Explanation

Barre-Sinoussi and Montagnier discovered human immunodeficiency virus (HIV). Joseph E. Murray and E. Donnall Thomas performed the first successful organ transplants by using immunosuppressive agents. Agre and MacKirron discovered water and ion channels in plasma membranes. Fire and Mello discovered RNA interference (RNAi), or gene silencing, by double-stranded RNA.