SCIENCE QUIZ

1. Rachel Carson was the marine biologist who revolutionized ________
a) Global Environmental Movement
b) X-ray diffraction
c) Genetic Transposition
d) Nerve Growth Factor

2. Jane Goodall Ethologist widely considered to be world’s foremost expert on _______
a) Chimpanzee
b) Ants
c) Arthropods
d) Insects

3. _______ the founder of Gene Campaign in India
a) Suman Sahai
b) Madhuri Mathur
c) Aditi Pant
d) Kiran Mazumdar Shaw

4. She was the first women who became medical doctor in U.S
a) Elizabeth Blackwell
b) Maria Curie
c) Maria Meyer
d) Rosalind Franklin

5. In Pre-independence She was not only the first female graduates of the British Empire and she was also the first female physicians of South Asia to be trained in western medicine. She studied medicine at the Calcutta Medical College, Calcutta and graduated in 1886.

a) Madhuri Mathur
b) Sarojini Naidu
c) Mother Teresa
d) Kadambini Ganguly

6. Rajeshwari Chatterji was the first Indian women who pioneered in the field of _______
a) Microwave Engineering
b) Microbiology
c) Marine Biology
d) Astronomy

7. She delivered India’s first test tube baby on August 6, 1986. She has also pioneered the Gamete Intra Fallopian Transfer (GIFT) technique resulting in the birth of India’s first GIFT baby on 4 January 1988.
a) Indira Hinduja
b) O Wilson
c) Leelavati
d) Anandi Joshi

8. Elizabeth H. Blackburn received Nobel prize in physiology for discovery of how chromosomes are protected by telomerase in ____
a) 2014
b) 2009
c) 2007
d) 2013

9. She got Nobel Prize in Medicine 2014 for discovery of cells that constitute a positing system in brain
a) May-Britt Mosser
b) Yonath
c) C. Hogdkins
d) J Curie

10. Ade E. Yonath received Nobel Prize in ______ 2009 for the structure and function in Ribosomes
a) Physiology or Medicine
b) Chemistry
c) Physics
d) Literature