Herbert Boyer: Founder of Recombinant DNA — NEET Biology
📚 Practice ConceptHerbert Boyer was born in 1936 and brought up in a corner of western Pennsylvania where railroads and mines were the destiny of most young men. He completed graduate work at the University of Pittsburgh, in 1963, followed by three years of post-graduate studies at Yale.
Consider the following statements regarding the origin and development of biotechnology: 1. Rene Descartes’ anthropocentric approach led natural sciences towards human welfare and comfort. 2. Physics and chemistry gave rise to engineering and industries that added value to human life. 3. Herbert Boyer first demonstrated plasmid removal and reinsertion in bacterial cells. 4. Stanley Cohen’s work on plasmids combined with Boyer’s DNA splicing gave rise to recombinant DNA technology. 5. Biotechnology, a twentieth-century branch of modern biology, improved human life through food and health applications.
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