Back in the Day
The process of taming an animal and keeping it as a pet or on a farm.
Domestication
What virus infects bacteria, and was discovered by Frederick Twort in 1915 and Felix D’ Herelle in 1917.
bacteriophage
In 1962, Dr. Osamu Shimomura discovered the green fluorescent protein in the___________ or Aequorea victoria.
jellyfish
A Scottish Botanist who discovered the presence of nuclei in the cell.
Robert Brown
Hybrid corn is commercialized in ________.
1933
What type of organism is yeast, the microorganism used by ancient Egyptians to bake leavened bread?
Fungus
Alexander Fleming discovered ‘penicillin’ the antibacterial toxin from the mold
_____________ ______________.
Penicillium notatum
In 1978, Genentech pioneered modern biotech therapeutics by producing this recombinant human hormone using engineered E. coli bacteria.
Insulin
He is known as the Father of Biotechnology
Károly Ereky
Fleming wrote, “When I woke up just after dawn on ___________________, I certainly didn’t plan to revolutionize all medicine by discovering the world’s first antibiotic, or bacteria killer.”
September 28, 1928
What process is known as cheesemaking, which involves the fermentation and coagulation of milk to produce various types of cheese?
This Danish microbiologist first introduced the phrase "genetic engineering" in 1941
A. Jost
Which species did the Human Genome Project reveal humans are genetically related to, sharing about 98-99% of our DNA?
chimpanzees
Published in 1866, this Augustinian monk's mid-19th-century experiments on pea plants revealed the fundamental laws of inheritance known as the Mendelian Law.
Gregor Mendel
The year when Dr. Jonas Salk developed the first polio vaccine.
1955
A mule, used in transportation and farming in ancient times, is the result of a cross between which two animals?
male donkey and female horse or
jack x mare
The term _______________ was first used in 1942 by Selman Waksman and his collaborators in journal articles to describe any substance produced by a microorganism that is antagonistic to the growth of other microorganisms in high dilution or bacterial killer.
antibiotics
This genetically altered crop was produced in 1988 to express proteins from a soil bacterium, rendering it completely pest-resistant to damaging insects.
BT Corn
Who owned the "Photo 51" which is the crucial X-ray diffraction image of DNA?
Rosalind Franklin
The Human Genome Project completed sequencing of the human genome on ________________
April 14, 2003
The word "cell" comes from the Latin word "cella," which means ______________
small room or small chamber
He famously stated, "Life is a germ, and a germ is Life." His findings led him to propose the principle that new life can only arise from existing life, effectively ending the debate over spontaneous generation
Louis Pasteur
CRISPR-Cas9 is a groundbreaking gene-editing technology that allows scientists to make precise changes to DNA within living organisms. What does "CRISPR" stands for?
Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats
Who is the German scientist who coined the term ‘Chromosome in 1888?
Heinrich Wilhelm Gottfried Von Waldeyer-Hartz
When did Dolly the sheep, the first mammal to be cloned from an adult somatic cell, die?
February 14, 2003