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Biotechnology: Principles and Processes — BIOLOGY STD 12 Science — Question

Rajasthan BoardEnglish MediumSTD 12 ScienceBIOLOGYBiotechnology: Principles and Processes1 Mark
MCQ
Kary B Mullis got Nobel prize for discovering:
  • A
    DNA polymerase enzyme
  • B
    Polymerase chain reaction
  • C
    Restriction endonucleases
  • D
    Western blotting
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Answer

  1. Polymerase chain reaction

Explanation:

DNA polymerase enzyme synthesizes DNA strands by adding deoxyribonucleotides to 3' end of the primer via phosphodiester bonds; it uses parental DNA as a template. Kary Mullis got Nobel prize, in 1993 in chemistry, for the invention of polymerase chain reaction (PCR).  PCR - technique amplify the gene of interest.

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