Healthcare States
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Genomics History 101
Words Made From DNA
100

CHOC

What is California.

100

Opened in 1916, this San Diego attraction sits on 100 acres, houses 12,000 animals and was loaned two new panda residents in 2024.

What is the San Diego Zoological Park or the San Diego Zoo?

100

This lab form - if missing in a shipment - must be requested as it is the only formal documentation that healthcare professionals use to request laboratory testing.

What is a test requisition or requisition?

100

Austrian biologist, meteorologist, mathematician and Augustinian friar Gregor Mendel is best known for his experiments breeding these type of plants to discover the basic principles of heredity and inheritance.

What are peas? 

100

A preposition used to refer to a time or place.

What is AT?

200

IPG

What is Utah.

200

Originating in San Diego, this "famous" food consists of a flour tortilla stuffed with carne asada, guacamole, pico de gallo, sour cream and french fries.

What is a California Burrito?

200

This type of record is required from Lab Associates when blood samples are spilled to suboptimal levels during shipping.

What is a Problem log?

200

These two pivotal figures in molecular biology are renowned for discovering the double helix structure of DNA in 1953.

Who are James Watson and Francis Crick or Watson and Crick?

200

A noun for a small domesticated carnivorous mammal that is widely kept as a pet, maybe to catch mice.

What is a CAT?

300

URMC

What is New York.

300

This popular California State beach pays homage to a rare San Diego native tree that grows in only two locations in the entire world.

What is Torrey Pines State Beach?

300

Samples missing identifiers such as name, date of birth, or medical record number are not suitable for testing because they are considered this.

What is unlabeled?

300
Developed in 1986, the first commercially available 4-dye automatic DNA sequence that could only run 32 samples in 12 hours was developed by this company.  A future 2002 machine could run 96 samples in 1 hour.

Who is ThermoFisher or ABI or Applied Biosystems Incorporated?

300

As a noun, a label attached to something for the purpose providing more information.

What is a TAG?

400

RWJB

What is New Jersey.

400

One of La Jolla's prominent residents until 1991, this author and cartoonist created more than 60 children's books featuring whimsical rhymes and quirky characters.

Who is Theodor Seuss Geisel or Dr. Seuss?

400

A family check error initiates when Globalfiler STR data does not identify a family of individuals as related, caused by a sample swap error or this "common" occurrence.

What is non-paternity?

400

Launched in October 1990 and completed in April 2003, this collaborative project cost approximately $2.7 billion dollars and pioneered significant advancements in the field of medicine and genomics.

What is the Human Genome Project?

400

As a verb, to do something or behave in a specified way.  As a noun, a thing done or deed.

What is a ACT?

500

HDVH

What is Michigan.

500

Known as the "Mother of Balboa Park" or the "female Johnny Appleseed", this individual played an integral role in introducing numerous plant species to San Diego's urban landscape.

Who is Kate Sessions?

500

This type of label must be adhered to the outside of packages sent to RCIGM, denotes sample types that are used for routine testing, and is not related to the diagnosis of an infectious disease.

What is an exempt human label?

500

Established in 1988 as part of the National Institute for Health (NIH), this website is a primary source for public biomedical databases such as PubMed, software tools for analyzing genomics data, and research in computational biology.

What is the NCBI website or National Center for Biotechnology Information?

500

As a noun, a keen sense of what to say to avoid causing offense in delicate situations.

What is TACT?

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