Biologist Quiz Flashcards

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Paul Boyer

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Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1997 for research on the enzymatic mechanism underlying the synthesis of adenosine triphosphate. (Researching adenosine triphosphate)

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Paul Berg

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Nobel Prize for recombinant DNA. Biochemist.

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Melvin Calvin

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Calvin Cycle

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Francis Crick

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British molecular biologist, biophysicist, and neuroscientist, most noted for being a co-discoverer of the structure of the DNA molecule

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Norman Borlaug

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American agronomist and humanitarian who led initiatives worldwide that contributed to the extensive increases in agricultural production termed the Green Revolution

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Aldo Leopold

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authored “A Sand County Almanac”. With this book, he introduced his opinion on ‘land ethic’, his innovative ideas about the preservation of land.
was a well known ecologist, forester, environmentalist, scientist and a well-known American author.

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