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100

The process of taming an animal and keeping it as a pet or on a farm.

Domestication

100

What virus infects bacteria, and was discovered by Frederick Twort in 1915 and Felix D’ Herelle in 1917.

bacteriophage

100

In 1962, Dr. Osamu Shimomura discovered the green fluorescent protein in the___________ or Aequorea victoria.

jellyfish

100

A Scottish Botanist who discovered the presence of nuclei in the cell.

Robert Brown

100

Hybrid corn is commercialized in ________.

1933

200

What type of organism is yeast, the microorganism used by ancient Egyptians to bake leavened bread?

Fungus

200

Alexander Fleming discovered ‘penicillin’ the antibacterial toxin from the mold 

_____________   ______________.

Penicillium notatum

200

This specific type of blood test can detect over 50 different types of cancer. It uses DNA sequencing to find unique patterns, which may tell your provider whether you have cancer and where it started.

Galleri test

200

He is known as the Father of Biotechnology

Károly Ereky

200

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

300

What process is known as cheesemaking, which involves the fermentation and coagulation of milk to produce various types of cheese?

Caseiculture
300

The term _________________ was first used by A. Jost, a Danish microbiologist, in 1941

genetic engineering

300

Which species did the Human Genome Project reveal humans are genetically related to, sharing about 98-99% of our DNA?

chimpanzees

300

He was the first to use the word "biology" and was a pioneer of neuroanatomy

Karl Friedrich Burdach

300

The year when Dr. Jonas Salk developed the first polio vaccine.

1955

400

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

400

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

400

The first vaccine developed against human papillomavirus (HPV), an infection implicated in cervical and throat cancers, and the first preventative cancer vaccine

Gardasil

400

Who owned the "Photo 51" which is the crucial X-ray diffraction image of DNA?

Rosalind Franklin

400

The Human Genome Project completed sequencing of the human genome on ________________

April 14, 2003

500

The word "cell" comes from the Latin word "cella," which means ______________

small room or small chamber

500

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

500

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

500

Who is the German scientist who coined the term ‘Chromosome in 1888?

Heinrich Wilhelm Gottfried Von Waldeyer-Hartz

500

When did Dolly the sheep, the first mammal to be cloned from an adult somatic cell, die?

February 14, 2003