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Who discovered recombinant DNA (rDNA) technology?


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James D. Watson

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Walter Sutton and Avery

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Har Gobind Khorana

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Stanley Cohen and Herbert Boyer

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Solution

The correct option is D

Stanley Cohen and Herbert Boyer


Herbert Boyer and Stanley Cohen combined their efforts in biotechnology to invent the rDNAtechnology method of cloning genetically engineered molecules in foreign cells.

Har Gobind Khorana research helped to show how the order of nucleotides in nucleic acids, which carry the genetic code of the cell, control the cell’s synthesis of proteins.

James D. Watson is best known as a co-discoverer of the structure of DNA in 1953 with Francis Crick.

Walter Sutton and Avery proposed that chromosomes bear hereditary factors.


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