NAME OF YEAR WORK

SCIENTIST
ERNST MAYR
(Darwin of the 20th
century) Birth = 5th
July 1904
Death 2004

ARISTOTLE

R.H. WHITTAKER

DMITRI
IVANOVSKY

M.W. BEIJERINCK
 NAME OF YEAR WORK
SCIENTIST
W.M. STANLEY

T.O. DIENER

CAROLUS
LINNAEUS
[Father of Binomial
Nomenclature]

GEORGE BENTHAM
& JOSEPH DALTON
HOOKER

KATHERINE ESAU

ROBERT HOOKE
 NAME OF YEAR WORK
SCIENTIST
PURKINJE

MATTHIAS
SCHLEIDEN
(German Botanist)

THEODOR SCHWANN
(British Zoologist)

Joseph Priestley

Rudolf Virchow
 NAME OF YEAR WORK
SCIENTIST
Langdon Down

Friedrich Miescher

Henking

Camillo Golgi

De Vries, Correns and

von Tschermak

Blackmann

Frederick Griffith

Stanley
 NAME OF YEAR WORK
SCIENTIST
Fleming, Chain &
Florey

Watson

Hershey & Chase

Stanley Miller

Watson & Crick

Palade

Ramachandran
 NAME OF YEAR WORK
SCIENTIST
Meselson & Stahl

Taylor et al

Melvin Calvin

Watson, Crick and

Wilkins

Singer & Nicolson

Stanley Cohen &

Herbert Boyer

Julius von Sachs

 NAME OF YEAR WORK
SCIENTIST
Gregor Mendel

Julius von Sachs

Gregor Mendel

Ramdeo Misra

ANTON VON
LEEUWENHOEK

Robert Brown

T.W. Engelmann
 NAME OF YEAR WORK
SCIENTIST
Hatch & Slack

Embden , Meyerhof &

J.Parnas

Charles Darwin ,
Frances Darwin

F.W. Went

Miller et al

Panchanan Maheswari
 NAME OF YEAR WORK
SCIENTIST
Carl Correns

Karl Landsteiner

Sutton & Boveri

Thomas Hunt Morgan

[Father of Exp.
Genetics]

Bateson & Punnett

Wilson & Steven

 NAME OF YEAR WORK
SCIENTIST
Alfred Sturtevant

C. Punnett

Johannsen

Altmann

Wilkin & Franklin

Chargaff

Francis Crick
 NAME OF YEAR WORK
SCIENTIST
Oswald Avery , Colin
Macleod , Maclyn
McCarty

Alexander Rich &

Gilbert

George Gamow

Hargobind Khurana

Holley & Kim-Klug

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1902

1938

1951

1963

1963

1966

1971

1971

1972
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1974

1980

1981

1981

1983

1984

1986

1987

1987
Abbreviation Full Forms
ICBN

ICZN

NBRI

CDRI

PPLO

RRC

GFR

JGA

ANF
Abbreviation Full Forms
ICBN ● International Code for Botanical Nomenclature

ICZN ● International Code of Zoological Nomenclature

NBRI ● National Botanical Research Institute

CDRI ● Central Drug Research Institute

PPLO ● Pleuropneumonia Like Organisms

RRC ● Respiratory Rhythm Centre (Medulla)

GFR ● Glomerular Filtration Rate

JGA ● JuxtaGlomerular Apparatus.

ANF ● Atrial-Natriuretic factor

Abbreviation Full Forms
GnRH ● Gonadotropin Releasing Hormone

GH ● Growth Hormone

PRL ● Prolactin

TSH ● Thyroid Stimulating Hormone

ACTH ● Adreno Cortico Trophic Hormone

MSH ● Melanocyte Stimulating Hormone

ADH ● Vasopressin/Anti-diuretic Hormone

TCT ● Thyrocalcitonin

PTH ● Parathyroid hormone

CCK ● Cholecystokinin
Abbreviation Full Forms
GA3

PMC

MMC

PEN

hCG

hPL

RCH

RTI

MMR

IMR
Abbreviation Full Forms
IUDs ● Intra Uterine Devices

OCPs ● Oral Contraceptive Pills

MTP ● Medical Termination of Pregnancy

ART ● Assisted Reproductive Technologies

ZIFT ● Zygote Intra-fallopian transfer

GIFT ● Gamete Intra-fallopian transfer

IUT ● Intra Uterine Transfer

IUI ● Intra Uterine Insemination

ICSI ● Intra cytoplasmic sperm injection

IVF ● In-vitro fertilisation

Abbreviation Full Forms
ET ● Embryo transfer

NHC ● Non-histone Chromosomal proteins

snRNA ● Small Nuclear RNA

hnRNA ● Heterogenous Nuclear RNA

sRNA ● Soluble RNA

HGP ● Human Genome Project

BAC ● Bacterial Artificial Chromosome

YAC ● Yeast Artificial Chromosome

VNTR ● Variable Number of Tandem Repeats

IARI ● Indian Agricultural Research Institute (New Delhi)

Abbreviation Full Forms
STPs ● Sewage Treatment Plants

BOD ● Biochemical oxygen Demand

DO ● Dissolved Oxygen

KVIC ● Khadi & Village Industries Commission

Bt ● Bacillus thuringiensis

EcoRI ● Escherichia coli RY13.

Ori ● Origin of Replication

pBR322 ● Plasmid

Ti Plasmid ● Tumor Inducing Plasmid

PCR ● Polymerase Chain Reaction

Abbreviation Full Forms
GMO ● Genetically modified Organisms

GEAC ● Genetic Engineering Approval Committee.

ADA ● Adenosine deaminase

RNAi ● RNA interference

NPP ● Net Primary Productivity

GPP ● Gross Primary Productivity

GDP ● Gross Domestic Product

IUCN ● International Union for Conservation of Nature &

Natural Resources

GFC ● Grazing food chain

DFC ● Detritus food chain

Abbreviation Full Forms
GMO ● Genetically modified Organisms

GEAC ● Genetic Engineering Approval Committee.

ADA ● Adenosine deaminase

RNAi ● RNA interference

NPP ● Net Primary Productivity

GPP ● Gross Primary Productivity

GDP ● Gross Domestic Product

IUCN ● International Union for Conservation of Nature &

Natural Resources

GFC ● Grazing food chain

DFC ● Detritus food chain