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Question : 17 [SSC CHSL 2014]
“Linkage” was discovered by
a) Bateson
b) Blakslee
c) Muller
d) Morgan
Answer »Answer: (a)
William Bateson, an English geneticist, co-discovered genetic linkage with Reginald Punnett in 1909. He was the first person to use the term genetics to describe the study of heredity and biological inheritance, and the chief populariser of the ideas of Gregor Mendel.
Question : 18 [SSC GL 2013]
Blood group was discovered by :
a) Alexander Fleming
b) William Harvey
c) Pavlov
d) Landsteiner
Answer »Answer: (d)
The ABO blood group system is widely credited to have been discovered by the Austrian scientist Karl Landsteiner, who found three different blood types in 1900; he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1930 for his work.
Question : 19 [SSC CPO 2003]
Who produced the first automobile ?
a) Karl Benz
b) Gottleib Daimler
c) Rudolf Diesel
d) Henry Ford
Answer »Answer: (a)
An automobile, motor car or car is a wheeled motor vehicle used for transporting passengers, which also carries its own engine or motor. The term motorcar has also been used in the context of electrified rail systems to denote a car that functions as a small locomotive but also provides space for passengers and baggage.
Although several other German engineers (including Gottlieb Daimler, Wilhelm Maybach, and Siegfried Marcus) were working on the problem at about the same time, Karl Benz generally is acknowledged as the inventor of the modern automobile.
In 1879, Benz was granted a patent for his first engine, which had been designed in 1878. Many of his other inventions made the use of the internal combustion engine feasible for powering a vehicle.
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