CRISPR
What is the nickname for CRISPR
Genetic Scissors
What is the name of the company that is working on capturing carbon?
Innovative Genomics Institute (IGI)
Mosquitoes carry this disease
Malaria
The first designer baby
Adam Nash
This new technology is feared as a possible threat due to its precision in editing DNA.
What is C.R.I.S.P.R.?
What is the name of the enzyme used to change DNA?
Cas9 Enzyme
What is the model organism they are working on to capture carbon?
Rice
What is the name of the gene in mosquitoes that helps them carry diseases?
AGAP004887
The gene Dr. Jiankui He's team targeted
CCR5
Bans the development, production, acquisition, transfer, stockpiling, and use of biological weapons.
What is the Biological Weapons Convention (BWC)?
What does CRISPR stand for?
Clustered Regulated Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats
What was the example of a GMO crop that had enhanced nutritional value?
Golden Rice
What is the other name for killer bees?
Africanized bees
Dr. He's designer baby experiment is often criticized for its lack of this
Informed consent of the participants
This new technology uses computers to "think" and is both a benefit and a possible danger for chemistry and biology research.
What is Artificial Intelligence (A.I.)?
What is the bacteria CRISPR was first discovered in?
Escherichia coli (E. Coli)
What vitamin is increased in corn to enhance its nutritional value
Provitamin A
How many colonies of bees escaped captivity in Brazil?
20
This document is internationally accepted as a set of ethical guidelines surrounding human experimentation
Declaration of Helsinki
This is the year the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) gained the ability to assign blame for chemical attacks.
What is 2018?
What year did Francisco Mojica coin the term CRISPR?
1993
What is the name of the harmful toxin that contaminates corn?
Mycotoxins
Who was the scientist that brought over the bees to Brazil?
Dr. Warwick Kerr
The delta 32 mutation is not harmless, as individuals with the mutation are more vulnerable to influenza, West Nile virus, and this disease
Japanese encephalitis
This is the full name for the acronym BWC ISU.
What is the Biological Weapons Convention Implementation Support Unit?