Image Based Question-65292

The structure represented by a “black arrow” in the picture below were discovered by ?

A. Michael Stanley Clive Birbeck.

B. Mc Dermott.

C. Ziylan U.

D. Clair-Moninot.

Correct Answer » A Explanation

The structure represented by a black arrow in the picture above represents Birbeck bodies.Under the electron microscope, Birbeck granules have a pentalaminar, rodlike, tubular appearance and some­times a dilated terminal end resembling tennis-racket appearance.

Birbeck granules were discovered by Michael Stanley Clive Birbeck (1925–2005), a British scientist and electron microscopist who worked at the Chester Beatty Cancer Research Institute London from 1950 until 1981.