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WBCS Main Examination 2023 — Paper IV: General Studies II · Question 122 of 200

Q122
General ScienceBiology
In 2006, Nobel Prize for RNA Interference Phenomenon was won on the work carried out on
  1. a.D. melanogaster
  2. b.A. thalliana
  3. c.C. Elegans
  4. d.S. Pombe

Answer: (C) C. Elegans

Andrew Fire and Craig Mello won the 2006 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for discovering RNA interference in the nematode worm Caenorhabditis elegans. Drosophila, Arabidopsis and fission yeast are other model organisms, not the one used in that work.

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