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The responsible parties for the content in a research publication.

Who are the authors?

100

This group is responsible for reviewing all federally funded research involving human subjects.

What is the Institutional Review Board (IRB)?

100

Making up data or results. 

What is fabrication?

100

These animals were a flashpoint for animal rights activism in the 1980s.

What are the Silver Spring monkeys?

100

The best department on campus.

What is Bioengineering?

200

As a graduate student, this is an important document to maintain for legal and scientific purposes. 

What is a lab notebook?

200

This group is responsible for ensuring the ethical and humane care and use of animals in research, teaching, and other activities at places like UC Berkeley.

What is the Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee (IACUC)?

200

The appropriation of another person’s ideas,
processes, results, or words without giving appropriate credit.

What is plagiarism?

200

Someday these three-dimensional multicellular structures could become sentient, or otherwise capable of perceptions, feelings, or other experiences.

What are brain organoids?

200

Publications from these scientific journals have higher rates of retratctions.

What are high/er impact journals? 

300

Typically, and according to the UC Berkeley Policy Governing Joint Authorship, these are the conventions for first and last author.

First: Who is the primary person who designed the research and wrote the paper?

Last: Who is the Principal Investigator?

300

This federal regulation outlines the requirements for research involving human participants.

What is the Common Rule?

300

Changing or omitting data or results such that the
research is not accurately represented in the research record.

What is falsification?

300

This building is courtesy of human growth hormone.

What is Genentech Hall?

300

The estimated number of animals used for research globally every year.

What is over 100 million?

400

Studies have quantified the usage of this writing tool as being much higher than reported by authors. 

What is the use of AI? 

400

This is a process in which patients are given information, including possible risks and benefits, about a medical procedure or treatment, genetic testing, or a clinical trial.

What is informed consent?

400

The U.S. Office of Science and Technology Policy defines misconduct as these three key elements.

What are fabrication, falsification, and plagiarism?

400

These two types of surrogacy are distinguished by whether the surrogate receives financial compensation.

What are altruistic surrogacy and commercial surrogacy? 

400

The % share of net royalties that UC inventors receive.

What is 35%?

500

This is an essential step in determining authorship.

What is communication with all collaborators/stakeholders?

500

These are commonly referred to as the "three Rs" of animal research.

What is reduce, replace, refine?

500

In addition to the three elements of misconduct, to be considered research misconduct, the actions must also meet these three criteria.

What is “significant departure
from accepted practices,” "committed intentionally,
or knowingly, or recklessly," and be “proven by a preponderance of evidence?”

500

The number of years the Tuskeegee syphilis study was conducted.

What is 40 years?

500

This regulates the usage of AI in the United States at the federal level. 

What is none/nothing?