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Inventors and Scientific Discoveries

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This hub provides questions related to great inventors and their scientific discoveries. It covers the inventors of the telephone, radio, and microchips, alongside Nobel Prize winners. These facts are crucial for the general awareness section of major competitive exams.

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Inventors and Scientific Discoveries Questions

Multiple choice physics electromagnetism magnetic field due to a circular current carrying conductor magnetic field produced in a circular loop field due to a current carrying coil oersted experiment field due to a current carrying conductor magnetic field due to a straight current carrying conductor magnetic field lines due to current

The Magnetic effect of current was discovered by:

  1. John Ambrose Fleming

  2. Hans Christian Oersted

  3. Michael Faraday

  4. André-Marie Ampère

Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
B Correct answer
Explanation
The magnetic effect of an electric current was discovered by Hans Christian Oersted in 1820. He demonstrated the effect by plotting compass close to a long straight wire which is carrying current and noting it's deflection. And the by reversing the direction of the current, the compass needle was deflected in the opposite sense.

Multiple choice chemistry occurrence of carbon compounds in nature importance of carbon covalent bonding in carbon compounds carbon and its forms

Who has synthesised the organic compound 'urea' for the first time?

  1. Friedrich Wohler

  2. Berzelelius

  3. Kolbe

  4. None of the above

Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
A Correct answer
Explanation

In 1828, the German chemist Friedrich Wöhler obtained urea artificially by treating silver cyanate with ammonium chloride. 


This was the first time an organic compound was artificially synthesized from inorganic starting materials, without the involvement of living organisms.

Multiple choice biology reproduction in animals story of dolly, the clone sheep story of dolly, the clone process of cloning

The nucleus for cloning of dolly was taken from ________

  1. Finn dorset sheep

  2. Scottish black face ewe

  3. Both A and B

  4. None of these

Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
A Correct answer
Explanation

The correct answer is oil. finn dorsett is sheep from which the nucleus was taken for cloning of dolly, whereas scottish black face ewe was used for implanticen of egq containing nucleus of finn dorseet sheep.

Multiple choice biology reproduction in animals story of dolly, the clone sheep story of dolly, the clone process of cloning

The first mammal clone dolly was created by

  1. Ian Wilmut

  2. T.H. Morgan

  3. Robert Briggs

  4. Thomas King

Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
A Correct answer
Explanation

Dolly is the first sheep which was developed by the technique of cloning by Ian Wilmut in the year 1997. The sheep was developed from the diploid body cell. The somatic cell from the mother sheep was taken and the nucleus was injected into the egg cell which was cultured and transferred into the surrogate mother. This method is known as nuclear transfer. The sheep Dolly was identical in the characters with the mother who donated the diploid nucleus from the body cell.  

Thus, the correct answer is option A.

Multiple choice biology reproduction in animals story of dolly, the clone sheep story of dolly, the clone process of cloning

Which of the following statements is incorrect about Dolly, the clone?

  1. Dolly was developed from a cell taken from the mammary gland of Scottish blackface ewe and an unfertilized egg obtained from Finn Dorsett sheep

  2. The egg produced by the fusion was implanted into Scottish blackface ewe

  3. Dolly was identical to Fin Dorsett sheep and was called its done

  4. None of these

Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
A Correct answer
Explanation

  • Dolly was born on July 5, 1996, at Roslin Institute, the first mammal known to be cloned.
  •  A cell taken from the mammary gland of a 6-year-old Finn Dorset ewe was cloned through a technique known as nuclear transfer. 
  • The reproductive egg cells were removed from another female sheep, a ewe of a Scottish Blackface. 
  • Scottish Blackface egg cells were then fertilized with the genetic material from the Finn Dorset mammary cells and they fertilized cell was transferred to the uterus of the surrogate mother. 
  • On July 5, 1996, Dolly was born from one of the surrogate Blackface ewes which were identical to the Finn Dorset sheep. 

Thus, the correct answer is option A.

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Which of the following scientist discovered the "Pasteurization method of preserving milk" ?

  1. Louis Pasteur

  2. Robert Brown

  3. Archimedes

  4. None of the above

Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
A Correct answer
Explanation

Louis Pasteur discovered the Pasteurization method of preserving milk in 1964. This method killed harmful bacteria that tend to grow in dairy products like milk especially in the absence of refrigeration.

Multiple choice biology interdependence of organism and the environment natural cycles and resources constituents of air medicinal use of microorganism

Which famous biologist showed in the middle of the nineteenth century that beer and butter milk are products of fermentation brought about by years?

  1. Ignaz Philipp Scmmelweiss

  2. Friedrich Hente

  3. Louis Pasteur

  4. Joseph Lister

Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
C Correct answer
Explanation

In 1857, Pasteur showed that lactic acid fermentation is caused by living organisms, In 1877, working to improve the French brewing industry, Pasteur published his famous paper on fermentation,"Studies on fermentation". He defined fermentation (incorrectly) as "Life without air",but correctly showed that specific types of microorganisms cause specific types of fermentations and specific end-products.

So,the correct option is C. (louis pasteur)

Multiple choice zoology molecular genetics one gene - one enzyme hypothesis component of the cell cell and cell organelles

On which organism Beadle and Tatum worked to propose one gene-one enzyme hypothesis?

  1. Drosophila

  2. Escherichia coli

  3. Neurospora crassa

  4. Nostoc

Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
C Correct answer
Explanation

George Beadle and Edward Tatum gave molecular definition of a gene while working on nutritional mutants in Neurospora. They exposed spores of the fungus Neurospora crassa to X-rays and other agents which damage DNA and cause alterations in DNA sequence (mutations). They observed that mutant fungal strains which lacked one or another specific enzyme, sometimes results in the failure of an entire metabolic pathway. It was concluded that a gene is a segment of genetic material that codes for one enzyme; the one gene–one enzyme hypothesis which was modified to one gene–one polypeptide, because many genes products are not enzymes and many gene code for one polypeptide of a multi-subunit protein. Correct option is C.

Multiple choice zoology molecular genetics one gene - one enzyme hypothesis component of the cell cell and cell organelles

One gene-one enzyme hypothesis was postulated by

  1. R. Franklin

  2. Hershey and Chase

  3. A. Garrod

  4. Beadle and Tatum

Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
D Correct answer
Explanation
Beadle and Tatum did classical experiments on Neurospora crassa to prove that in a multistep biochemical pathway, each step is controlled by different enzymes and each of these enzymes are encoded by specific gene. This is called as one gene one enzyme hypothesis
So, the correct answer is 'Beadle and Tatum'
Multiple choice zoology cell and cell organelles one gene - one enzyme hypothesis component of the cell molecular genetics

Who propounded the theory, 'one gene-one enzyme one chemical reaction'?

  1. Watson & Crick

  2. George Beadle and Edward Tatum

  3. Abraham Trembley

  4. T.H. Morgan

Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
B Correct answer
Explanation

The one gene-one enzyme hypothesis is the idea that genes act through the production of enzymes, with each gene responsible for producing a single enzyme that in turn affects a single step in a metabolic pathway. The concept was proposed by George Beadle and Edward Tatum in an influential 1941 paper.  Beadle and Tatum noted that it was "entirely tenable to suppose that these genes which are themselves a part of the system, control or regulate specific reactions in the system either by acting directly as enzymes or by determining the specificities of enzymes".

Multiple choice zoology molecular genetics one gene - one enzyme hypothesis component of the cell cell and cell organelles

One gene-one enzyme hypothesis was postulated by-

  1. R. Franklin

  2. Hershey and Chase

  3. A.Garrod

  4. Beadle and Tatum

Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
D Correct answer
Explanation
The one gene-one enzyme hypothesis, proposed by George Wells Beadle in the US in 1941, is the theory that each gene directly produces a single enzyme, which consequently affects an individual step in a metabolic pathway.

So, the correct answer is 'Beadle and Tatum'.