World GK MCQs

World Famous Biologist MCQs with Answers

Who is known as the “Father of Modern Genetics”?
a) Gregor Mendel
b) Charles Darwin
c) Louis Pasteur
d) Francis Crick
Answer: a) Gregor Mendel

Who proposed the theory of evolution through natural selection?
a) Gregor Mendel
b) Charles Darwin
c) Louis Pasteur
d) Francis Crick
Answer: b) Charles Darwin

Who discovered penicillin, a breakthrough in antibiotics?
a) Gregor Mendel
b) Charles Darwin
c) Louis Pasteur
d) Alexander Fleming
Answer: d) Alexander Fleming

Who is known for developing the theory of spontaneous generation?
a) Gregor Mendel
b) Charles Darwin
c) Louis Pasteur
d) Alexander Fleming
Answer: c) Louis Pasteur

Who discovered the structure of DNA along with James Watson?
a) Gregor Mendel
b) Charles Darwin
c) Francis Crick
d) Alexander Fleming
Answer: c) Francis Crick

Who is known for the discovery of the laws of heredity?
a) Gregor Mendel
b) Charles Darwin
c) Louis Pasteur
d) Alexander Fleming
Answer: a) Gregor Mendel

Who proposed the theory of continental drift?
a) Gregor Mendel
b) Charles Darwin
c) Alfred Russel Wallace
d) Alexander Fleming
Answer: c) Alfred Russel Wallace

Who developed the first successful polio vaccine?
a) Gregor Mendel
b) Charles Darwin
c) Louis Pasteur
d) Jonas Salk
Answer: d) Jonas Salk

Who discovered the process of natural selection independently of Charles Darwin?
a) Gregor Mendel
b) Charles Darwin
c) Alfred Russel Wallace
d) Francis Crick
Answer: c) Alfred Russel Wallace

Who proposed the theory of general relativity?
a) Gregor Mendel
b) Charles Darwin
c) Louis Pasteur
d) Albert Einstein
Answer: d) Albert Einstein

Who is known for the discovery of the double helix structure of DNA along with Francis Crick?
a) Gregor Mendel
b) Charles Darwin
c) James Watson
d) Alexander Fleming
Answer: c) James Watson

Who developed the theory of operant conditioning?
a) Gregor Mendel
b) Charles Darwin
c) B. F. Skinner
d) Albert Einstein
Answer: c) B. F. Skinner

Who proposed the theory of the inheritance of acquired characteristics?
a) Gregor Mendel
b) Charles Darwin
c) Jean-Baptiste Lamarck
d) Francis Crick
Answer: c) Jean-Baptiste Lamarck

Who discovered the process of genetic recombination through experiments with fruit flies?
a) Gregor Mendel
b) Charles Darwin
c) Thomas Hunt Morgan
d) Albert Einstein
Answer: c) Thomas Hunt Morgan

Who is known for proposing the theory of the four humors in medicine?
a) Gregor Mendel
b) Charles Darwin
c) Hippocrates
d) Alexander Fleming
Answer: c) Hippocrates

Who developed the concept of psychoanalysis?
a) Gregor Mendel
b) Charles Darwin
c) Sigmund Freud
d) Francis Crick
Answer: c) Sigmund Freud

Who discovered the process of photosynthesis?
a) Gregor Mendel
b) Charles Darwin
c) Louis Pasteur
d) Jan Ingenhousz
Answer: d) Jan Ingenhousz

Who developed the theory of natural selection independently of Charles Darwin?
a) Gregor Mendel
b) Charles Darwin
c) Alfred Russel Wallace
d) Alexander Fleming
Answer: c) Alfred Russel Wallace

Who is known for the discovery of the structure of insulin?
a) Gregor Mendel
b) Charles Darwin
c) Frederick Banting
d) Jonas Salk
Answer: c) Frederick Banting

Who proposed the theory of endosymbiosis?
a) Gregor Mendel
b) Charles Darwin
c) Lynn Margulis
d) Albert Einstein
Answer: c) Lynn Margulis

Who developed the theory of behavioral ecology?
a) Gregor Mendel
b) Charles Darwin
c) E. O. Wilson
d) Alexander Fleming
Answer: c) E. O. Wilson

Who discovered the antibiotic streptomycin?
a) Gregor Mendel
b) Charles Darwin
c) Louis Pasteur
d) Selman Waksman
Answer: d) Selman Waksman

Who proposed the theory of cell theory?
a) Gregor Mendel
b) Charles Darwin
c) Theodor Schwann
d) Alexander Fleming
Answer: c) Theodor Schwann

Who discovered the process of fermentation?
a) Gregor Mendel
b) Charles Darwin
c) Louis Pasteur
d) Alexander Fleming
Answer: c) Louis Pasteur

Who is known for developing the theory of sociobiology?
a) Gregor Mendel
b) Charles Darwin
c) E. O. Wilson
d) Francis Crick
Answer: c) E. O. Wilson

Who proposed the theory of endocrine glands?
a) Gregor Mendel
b) Charles Darwin
c) Thomas Addison
d) Albert Einstein
Answer: c) Thomas Addison

Who discovered the process of gene splicing?
a) Gregor Mendel
b) Charles Darwin
c) Stanley Cohen
d) Alexander Fleming
Answer: c) Stanley Cohen

Who developed the theory of punctuated equilibrium in evolution?
a) Gregor Mendel
b) Charles Darwin
c) Stephen Jay Gould
d) Francis Crick
Answer: c) Stephen Jay Gould

Who discovered the process of recombination DNA technology?
a) Gregor Mendel
b) Charles Darwin
c) Stanley Cohen
d) Paul Berg
Answer: c) Stanley Cohen

Who is known for the discovery of the structure of the nervous system?
a) Gregor Mendel
b) Charles Darwin
c) Santiago Ramón y Cajal
d) Alexander Fleming
Answer: c) Santiago Ramón y Cajal

Who proposed the theory of inheritance of acquired characteristics?
a) Gregor Mendel
b) Charles Darwin
c) Jean-Baptiste Lamarck
d) Francis Crick
Answer: c) Jean-Baptiste Lamarck

Who discovered the process of PCR (polymerase chain reaction)?
a) Gregor Mendel
b) Charles Darwin
c) Kary Mullis
d) Alexander Fleming
Answer: c) Kary Mullis

Who developed the theory of island biogeography?
a) Gregor Mendel
b) Charles Darwin
c) Robert MacArthur
d) Albert Einstein
Answer: c) Robert MacArthur

Who discovered the process of RNA interference?
a) Gregor Mendel
b) Charles Darwin
c) Andrew Fire
d) Francis Crick
Answer: c) Andrew Fire

Who is known for the discovery of the structure of the golgi apparatus?
a) Gregor Mendel
b) Charles Darwin
c) Camillo Golgi
d) Alexander Fleming
Answer: c) Camillo Golgi

Who proposed the theory of kin selection in evolutionary biology?
a) Gregor Mendel
b) Charles Darwin
c) W. D. Hamilton
d) Francis Crick
Answer: c) W. D. Hamilton

Who discovered the process of cloning the first mammal, Dolly the sheep?
a) Gregor Mendel
b) Charles Darwin
c) Ian Wilmut
d) Alexander Fleming
Answer: c) Ian Wilmut

Who developed the theory of epigenetics?
a) Gregor Mendel
b) Charles Darwin
c) Conrad Waddington
d) Albert Einstein
Answer: c) Conrad Waddington

Who is known for the discovery of the process of nitrogen fixation?
a) Gregor Mendel
b) Charles Darwin
c) Richard Feynman
d) Alexander Fleming
Answer: c) Richard Feynman

Who proposed the theory of the symbiotic origin of mitochondria and chloroplasts?
a) Gregor Mendel
b) Charles Darwin
c) Lynn Margulis
d) Francis Crick
Answer: c) Lynn Margulis

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