Question

Recombinant DNA (rDNA) technology is related with which scientist among the following?

• A. C. Darwin
• B. Stanley Cohen
• C. Herbert Boyer
• D. Both (b) and (c)

Answer 1

Answer: (D)

Both (b) and (c)

Boyer and Cohen's achievement represented an advance upon the ingenious techniques developed by Paul Berg in 1972 for inserting viral DNA into bacterial DNA. Thus, they produced recombinant DNA by inserting a foreign gene into plasmid of E.coli.