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Medicine
Medicine Again!
100
Studies show that babies born through _________ have different microbiota from vaginal birth babies, and may be at higher risk for certain types of allergies and obesity.
What is C-section
100
This popular "Korean pop" band wrote a song named after "deoxyribonucleic acid". (What is the name of this band?)
What is BTS?
100
Who is she?
Who is Rosalind Franklin?
100
What BLAST stands for
What is Basic Local Alignment Search Tool?
100
Name 2 viral vectors we learned about in class
What are 2 of the following -- Adenovirus
Adeno-Associated Virus (AAV)
Retrovirus
Herpes Simplex Virus (HSV)
200
Each cell in your body contains about two meters of DNA. If laid end-to-end it would measure 200 billion kilometers. That’s long enough to stretch from Earth to the sun 1,333 times. How many days would it take sunlight to travel the same distance?
What is 7.4 days?
200
An enzyme that unzips the genes
What is helicase?
200
A=T, C=G, therefore adenine pairs with thymine, cytosine pairs with guanine. How this famous "base pair rule" is colloquially called.
What is Chargaff's Rule
200
The ability of the parasite to harm the host
What is Virulence
200
A metaphor for the evolutionary arms race derived from Alice in Wonderland; "running as fast as possible just to stay in the same place"
What is the Red Queen Hypothesis
300
In 1990 chymosin became the first food enzyme produced using recombinant DNA technology. Researchers cloned the chymosin gene from cows into fungi and bacteria, which can produce the enzyme during fermentation in much larger quantities with much higher quality than the stomachs of dairy animals. As much as _____ (percentage) of the hard cheese produced in the United States is produced with engineered chymosin.
What is 90%!!!!!!
300
Translate this sequence from DNA into RNA:
UAA ACG CUG UTC AUU AUC
ATT TGC GAC ACT TAA CAT
300
The energy currency of a cell, ATP, is made with Adenine and three phosphate molecules. Adenine is this type of nitrogenous base.
What is a purine?
300
In terms of bacterial phyla distribution, where on or in a female human's body is the most densely populated environment?
What is the GI tract?
300
Lycaenid caterpillars secrete “honeydew” that ants drink. Ants defend caterpillars against parasitic wasps. Honeydew secretion and defense are this type of phenomenon
What is coadaptation?
400
How many years did the Human Genome Project take to complete?
What is 5
400
The molecule shown below
What is Guanine?
400
My least favorite fruit, humans share about 50% of our DNA with it.
What is a banana?
400
The four types of histone modifications we learned about
What are Histone acetylation
Histone methylation
Histone phosphorylation
Histone ubiquitilation
400
The first gene therapy was performed on September 14th, 1990, where Ashanti DeSilva was treated for this disease.
What is SCID (Severe combined immunodeficiency)
500
A line of cells derived from cervical cancer cells taken on February 8, 1951 from Henrietta Lacks, a patient who died of cancer on October 4, 1951.
What are HeLa cells
500
The image shown below is an example of?
What is incomplete dominance?
500
Orbiting our Earth is a memory device that is known as ‘Immortal Drive’. The device is actually inside the International Space Station and it contains digitized DNA sequence of this late night show host. (It is actually an attempt to preserve human race in event of a global catastrophe.)
Who is Stephen Colbert?
It also has Lance Armstrong + Stephen Hawking's in it!
500
The type of macromolecule being tested in this BLAST search
What is proteins?
500
About how many microbial cells are there in the human body?
What is ~100^14 (Recent data suggests that the number is lower and that the ratio is closer to 60:40 to 80:20.)