Who is the father of genetic engineering? | Father of Genetic Engineering

Q. Who is called “Father of Genetic Engineering”?

1. Steward Linn
2. Stanley Cohen
3. Paul Berg
4. Kary Mullis

Answer: Paul Berg

Father of Genetic Engineering is Paul Berg

Paul Berg (born June 30, 1926) is an American biochemist and professor emeritus at Stanford University. He was the recipient of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1980, along with Walter Gilbert and Frederick Sanger. The award recognized their contributions to basic research involving nucleic acids.

Genetic Engineering

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• Genetic engineering is the science of manipulating the genetic material of an organism.
• Genetic engineering is a very young, exciting, and controversial branch of the biological sciences.
• On the one hand, it offers the possibility of cures for diseases and countless material improvements to daily life. Hopes for the benefits of genetic engineering are symbolized by the Human Genome Project, a vast international effort to categorize all the genes in the human species. On the other hand, genetic engineering frightens many with its potential for misuse, either in Nazi-style schemes for population control or through simple bungling that might produce a biological holocaust caused by a man-made virus.
• An organism that is generated through genetic engineering is considered to be genetically modified (GM) and the resulting entity is a genetically modified organism (GMO). The first GMO was a bacterium generated by Herbert Boyer and Stanley Cohen in 1973. Rudolf Jaenisch created the first GM animal when he inserted foreign DNA into a mouse in 1974.
• The first genetically engineered plant was tobacco, reported in 1983. It was developed by Michael W. Bevan, Richard B. Flavell and Mary-Dell Chilton by creating a chimeric gene that joined an antibiotic-resistant gene to the T1 plasmid from Agrobacterium. The tobacco was infected with Agrobacterium transformed with this plasmid resulting in the chimeric gene being inserted into the plant. Through tissue culture techniques a single tobacco cell was selected that contained the gene and a new plant is grown from it

Genetic Engineering Father: Paul Berg

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Father of Ayurveda	Dhanwantari
Father of Anatomy	Andreas Vesalius
Father of Atom Bomb	J. Robert Oppenheimer
Father of Aviation	Sir George Cayley
Father of Biology	Aristotle
Father of Botany	Theophrastus
Father of Computer	Charles Babbage
Father of Computer Science	George Boole and Alan Turing
Father of Economics	Adam Smith
Father of Electricity	Benjamin Franklin
Father of Electronics	Michael Faraday
Father of Email	Ray Tomlinson
Father of English Poetry	Geoffrey Chaucer
Father of Evolution	Charles Darwin
Father of Genetics	Gregor Mendel
Father of Geometry	Euclid
Father of Humanism	Francesco Petrarca
Father of Immunology	Edward Jenner
Father of Internet	Vint Cerf
Father of Laptop	Bill Moggridge
Father of Microbiology	Antonie Philips Van Leeuwenhoek
Father of Microscopy	Antonie Philips Van Leeuwenhoek
Father of Mobile Phone	Martin Cooper
Father of Modern Astronomy	Nicolaus Copernicus
Father of Modern Medicine	Hippocrates
Father of Modern Olympic	Pierre De Coubertin
Father of Modern Physics	Galileo Galilei
Father of Nanotechnology	Richard Smalley
Father of New France	Samuel de Champlain
Father of Nuclear Chemistry	Otto Hahn
Father of Nuclear Physics	Ernest Rutherford
Father of Nuclear Science	Marie Curie and Pierre Curie
Father of Numbers	Pythagoras
Father of Periodic Table	Dmitri Mendeleev
Father of Philosophy	Rene Descartes
Father of Plastic Surgery	Sir Harold Gillies
Father of Political Science	Aristotle
Father of Psychology	Sigmund Freud
Father of Sanstrik Grammar	Panini
Father of Scientific Management	Frederick Winslow Taylor
Father of Sociology	Auguste comte
Father of Surgery	Sushruta
Father of Telephone	Alexander Graham Bell
Father of Television	Philo Farnsworth
Father of the American Constitution	James Madison
Father of the Indian Constitution	Dr. B.R Ambedkar
Father of the Green Revolution	Norman Ernest Borlaug
Father of the Green Revolution in India	M. S. Swaminathan
Father of the Indian Constitution	Dr. B. R. Ambedkar
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