Nobel Prize Winners

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100

Gregor Hendel

It took him eight years and more than 10,000 pea plants to discover the laws of inheritance.

200

Linus Pauling

Even though he added an extra strand to the structure of DNA, he ultimately won two Nobel Prizes: the Nobel Prize in Chemistry and the Nobel Peace Prize

300

Frederick Sanger

This scientist won two Nobel Prizes in Chemistry: one for his work on the structure of protein and another for work on the determination of base sequences in nucleic acids. Quite a sequence of events! Frederick Sanger

400

Martha Chase and Alfred hershey

These scientists used a common kitchen appliance to help show that phage DNA carries instructions to make new phage particles. Thinking of making a milkshake?

500

Barbara McClintock

Next time you’re munching away at the movies, think of this Nobel-Prize winning scientist who figured out the process of transposition in corn chromosomes.

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100

1962

When did Dr's. Watson, Crick and Wilkins receive the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for solving the structure of DNA?

200

David Baltimore

This scientist found that some viruses have an RNA-dependent DNA polymerase that was later named “reverse transcriptase.” He was one of three who shared in the 1975 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.

300

GeneChip

Even though he had worked on a potato farm, Steve Fodor’s work led to the development of this kind of chip (you can’t eat it!).

400

The human Genome Prodject

J. Craig Venter’s company, Celera Genomics, worked on this very important project.

500

Density gradient centrifugation

Meselson and Stahl invented this new technique in their quest to prove that DNA replication is semiconservative.

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100

1978

In which year was the first test-tube baby born?

200

Friedrich Miescher

I first isolated DNA using pus collected from bandages at a local hospital. Since white blood cells are a major component of pus, they were my source of DNA. Yuck!

300

Thomas Hunt Morgan

The “fly room” at Columbia University was established through my efforts. Imagine working in a room filled with bottle after bottle of fruit flies!

400

Christiane Nusslein-Volhard and Eric Wieschaus

We worked together to demonstrate how genes work during development to change a single egg cell into a complex organism. Follow our experiment and find out what the names of the stages are that a fruit fly goes through when maturing from a fertilized egg to an adult.

500

Thomas R. Cech

I showed that RNA could act as its own catalyst. Because of my work, it is no longer correct to state, “all enzymes are proteins”.

bonus

100

Prophase

When does crossover take place in meiosis

200

Telophase

During which phase of meiosis does the nuclear membrane reform around chromosomes?

300

Interphase

During which phase of the meiotic cell cycle does DNA replication occur?

400

a sperm

A human cell containing 22 autosomes and a Y chromosome is...

500

Meiosis

Homologous chromosomes move towards opposite poles of a dividing cell during...

bonus

100

sister chromatids separate during anaphase

Meiosis II is similar to mitosis in that...

200

homologues line up in meiosis I and duplicated chromosomes line up in meiosis II

Metaphase of meiosis I and meiosis II differ in that...

300

Mitosis

Asexually reproducing organisms produce offspring that are genetically identical to each other and to the parents. What type of cell division are the offspring a product of?

400

anaphase ll

At which stage of meiosis do chromatids separate and become daughter chromosomes?

500

Meiosis

The process in which haploid gametes are formed in diploid organisms is called