Biology PYQ 16 of 227 · Biomolecules & DNA/RNA

Who synthesized the DNA in Vitro?

  1. AArthur Kornberg
  2. BRobert Hooke
  3. CEdward Jenner
  4. DJoseph Lister

59th BPSC

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Correct answer: (a) Arthur Kornberg

Explanation

Arthur Kornberg isolated the first DNA polymerase in 1956 and synthesised DNA in vitro.

He shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology/Medicine (1959) with Severo Ochoa for the biological synthesis of nucleic acids.

Hooke (cell), Jenner (vaccine) and Lister (antisepsis) are unrelated to in-vitro DNA synthesis.

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