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Identify the celebrated biologist who is credited as the founding Director of TIFR National Center for Biological Sciences?

Har Gobind Khurana

Venkatraman Ramakrishnan

Obaid Siddiqui

Usha Vijayraghavan

✅ Correct Option: 3

Obaid Siddiqi, a pioneer of behavioural genetics and neurogenetics in India, founded the Molecular Biology Unit at TIFR and went on to become the founding Director of the National Centre for Biological Sciences, Bengaluru. Khurana and Ramakrishnan are Nobel laureates unconnected with NCBS's founding, and Usha Vijayraghavan is a later NCBS faculty member.

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