Fundamentals of Plant Biotechnology: Important Milestones Quiz

Haberlandt = 1902 Hannig = 1904 Karl Ereky = 1919 Robbins = 1922

Skoog = In vitro shoot formation in tobacco Morel and Martin = Use of meristem culture to obtain virus-free plants Muir et al. = Produced first plant from single cell Miller et al. = In vitro culture of root tips

Plant Tissue Culture = Haberlandt Embryo culture = Hannig In vitro culture of root tips = Robbins In vitro shoot formation = Skoog

<p>Totipotency = Coined by Haberlandt; First attempted to culture single cell Biotechnology = Coined by Karl Ereky Micrografting = First application by Morel and Martin Meristem culture = Used to obtain virus-free plants</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Isolation of single cells by plating = 1962 Coined the term Restriction endonuclease which cleaves DNA = 1970 Protoplast fusion = 1970 First recombinant DNA molecule produced using restriction enzymes = 1974</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Skoog and Miller = Discovery of kinetin (cell division hormone) Gautheret = Discovery of auxin Cocking = Publication of first handbook on plant tissue culture Bergman = 1st attempted to obtain protoplast by enzymatic degradation of cell wall</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Power et al. = Coined the term Restriction endonuclease which cleaves DNA Takebe et al. = Discovery of reverse transcriptase Maxam and Gilbert = Gene sequencing method discovered Alec Jeffreys = Father of DNA fingerprinting</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Meselson and Yuan = Production of first haploid embryos from pollen grains of Datura innoxia Carlson et al. = First report of interspecific hybridization by protoplast fusion in 2 species of tobacco Zaenen et.al.; Larebeke et.al. = Ti plasmid is tumour inducing principle in Agrobacterium Chilton et al. = Successful integration of Ti plasmid DNA in plants</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Arabidopsis thaliana genome published = 2001 Rice genome sequenced = 2005 Sequencing of human genome successfully completed = 2001 Human genome Project started = 1990</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Skoog and Miller = Discovery of kinetin (cell division hormone) Gautheret = Discovery of auxin Cocking = Publication of first handbook on plant tissue culture Murashige and Skoog = Isolation of single cells by plating</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Nucleotide sequencing of tobacco chloroplast genome = 1986 Sequencing of human genome successfully completed = 2001 Rice genome sequenced = 2005 Arabidopsis thaliana genome published = 2001</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>First recombinant DNA molecule produced using restriction enzymes = 1974 Commercial production of human insulin through genetic engineering in bacterial cells = 1980 Discovery of PCR = 1986 Sequencing of human genome successfully completed = 2001</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Discovery of kinetin (cell division hormone) = 1957 Coined the term somaclonal variation = 1981 First report of interspecific hybridization by protoplast fusion in 2 species of tobacco = 1972 Ti plasmid is tumour inducing principle in Agrobacterium = 1975</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>RFLP = Genetic engineering DNA microarray system = Genome sequencing AFLP technique = Genome sequencing Bt gene isolated from Bacillus thuringiensis = Genetic engineering</p> Signup and view all the answers