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Scientist Sheet Final
Scientist Sheet Final
Scientist Sheet Final
➢ Class 12th
S.no Scientist name Contribution/Awards NCERT page no.
Panchanan a) popularised use of NCERT page 2 Class 12th bio
1) embryological aspects in
Maheshwari taxonomy
Watson and Crick a) double helical model of B- NCERT page 68 Class 12th bio
2) DNA
Gregor Mendel a) performed experiments on NCERT page 70 Class 12th bio
3) garden peas and gave
(1856-1863) various laws
Reginald.C.Punnett a) british geneticist who NCERT page 71 Class 12th bio
4) developed punnett square
De Vries, Correns, a) rediscovered mendel’s NCERT page 81 Class 12th bio
5) results
Tschemark
Sutton and Boveri a) noted that behaviour of NCERT page 81 Class 12th bio
6) chromosomes is similar to
that of genes
b) gave chromosomal theory NCERT page 83 Class 12th bio
of inheritance
Thomas Morgan a) proved chromosomal NCERT page 83 Class 12th bio
7) theory of inheritance
b) called as Father of
Experimental Genetics
Alfred Sturtevant a) created the genetic map of NCERT page 83 Class 12th bio
8) drosophila
a) gave the name X-Body NCERT page 85 Class 12th bio
9) Henking
a) gave the name of acidic NCERT page 97 Class 12th bio
10) Fredrich Meischer substance found in the
nucleus as Nuclein
11) Maurice Wilkins & a) gave X-Ray diffraction data NCERT page 97 Class 12th bio
on the basis of which
Rosalind Franklin Watson and crick gave
double helix model
a) A+T/G+C=1 NCERT page 97 Class 12th bio
12) Erwin Chargaff
a) gave Central Dogma of NCERT page 98 Class 12th bio
13) Francis Crick Biology
a) gave the transformation NCERT page 100 Class 12th
14) Fredrick Griffith principle bio
(1928)
a) proved for the first time NCERT page 101 Class 12th
15) Avery, McLeod, that DNA is the genetic bio
McCarty material
a) gave the unequivocal NCERT page 101 Class 12th
16) Alfred Hershey & proof that DNA is the bio
Martha Chase genetic material
a) proved that DNA NCERT page 101 Class 12th
17) Meselson & Stahl replication is semi bio
conservative in nature
a) argued that genetic code NCERT page 111 Class 12th
18) George Gamow should be made up of 3 bio
nucleotides
a) developed a method NCERT page 112 Class 12th
19) Hargobind Khorana useful to from RNA bio
molecules with defined
sequence of bases
a) developed a cell free NCERT page 112 Class 12th
20) Marshall Nirenberg system for protein bio
synthesis
a) explained Lac Operon NCERT page 116 Class 12th
21) Jacob & Monod bio
a) developed the technique NCERT page 122 Class 12th
22) Alec Jeffreys of DNA fingerprinting bio
a) Disproved the theory of NCERT page 127 Class 12th
23) Louis Pasteur bio
spontaneous generation
a) proposed that life NCERT page 127 Class 12th
24) Oparin & Haldane originated from non-living bio
organic molecules
a) proved the theory given by NCERT page 127 Class 12th
25) S.L.Miller Oparin & Haldane (in 1953) bio
a) Natural Selection NCERT page 134 Class 12th
26) Charles Darwin bio
b) Branching Descent
a) came to similar NCERT page 129 Class 12th
27) Alfred Wallace conclusions as Charles bio
Darwin while working in
Malay Archipelago islands
a) gave the theory of use and NCERT page 135 Class 12th
28) Lamarck disuse of organs bio
a) published his work on NCERT page 135 Class 12th
29) Thomas Malthus population studies which bio
inspired Darwin
a) gave the concept of NCERT page 135 Class 12th
30) Hugo De Vries Saltation which played role bio
in evolution
a) gave a principle according NCERT page 136 Class 12th
31) Hardy-Weinberg to which gene frequency bio
in a population remains
same across generations
a) Father of Green Revolution NCERT page 144 Class 12th
32) M.S.Swaminathan in India bio
a) discovered blood NCERT page 145 Class 12th
33) William Harvey circulation bio
b) disproved the concept of
Black Bile
a) was a cook and a carrier of NCERT page 147 Class 12th
34) Mary Mallon typhoid infection bio
a)worked at International NCERT page 173 Class 12th
35) Norman.E.Borlaug Centre for Wheat and bio
Maize Improvement in
Mexico and developed
semi dwarf variety of wheat
a) developed the first vaccine NCERT page 182 Class 12th
36) Alexander Fleming Penicillin while working bio
on staphylococcus
a) used penicillin to its full NCERT page 182 Class 12th
37) Ernst Chain & potential during WW2 to bio
Harvard Florey treat soldiers
a) studied restriction NCERT page 192 Class 12th
38) Herbert Boyer enzymes on E.Coli bio
b) with Stanley Cohen NCERT page 194 Class 12th
formed the first R-DNA bio
a) developed a method of NCERT page 192 Class 12th
39) Stanley Cohen removing plasmids form a bio
cell and inserting them
into other cells
a) Father of Ecology in India NCERT page 218 Class 12th
40) Ramdeo Misra bio
a) did elegant field NCERT page 235 Class 12th
41) Cornell experiments on barnacle bio
Balanus and Chlamathus
a) gave the principle of NCERT page 235 Class 12th
42) Gause competitive exclusion
a) did experiments on NCERT page 235 Class 12th
43) MacArthur bio
warblers to prove the
principle of Resource
Partitioning
a) put price tags on nature’s NCERT page 255 Class 12th
44) Robert Constanza life support services bio
and colleagues
a) popularised the term NCERT page 258 Class 12th
45) Edward Wilson Biodiversity bio
a) gave an estimate of about NCERT page 259 Class 12th
46) Robert May 7 million species present bio
on Earth
a) gave species area NCERT page 262 Class 12th
47) Alexander Von relationship bio
Humboldt
a) said that the outdoor plots NCERT page 263 Class 12th
48) David Tilman with mare species show bio
less year to year variation
in total biomass
a) gave the Rivet Popper NCERT page 263 Class 12th
49) Paul Ehlrich Hypothesis bio
a) gave Embryological NCERT supplementary
50) Ernst Haeckel support for evolution material page 289 Class 12th
a) disproved the theory of NCERT supplementary
51) Karl Ernst Von Baer embryological support for Material page 289 Class 12th
evolution