Areas of Biotech
Historical Figures
Historical Dates
What did they do?
Improving the Future
100
What type of biotechnology has animal feed products that are enhanced with protiens to boast nutrition and control disease?
Agiculture
100
Who is the father of medicine?
Hippocrates
100
In what year did President Bush premit federal funding of research using stem cells?
2001
100
Who made advances in x-ray diffraction techniques with DNA?
Rosalind Franklin
100
What is something you and your family should recieve to prevent some diseases/illnesses?
Vaccines
200
What type of biotechnology is this an example of: fruit jucies that are made using the enzymes pectinase which breaks down the pulp into juice?
Food and Consumer Goods
200
Who was the first surgen to successfuly separate siamese twins who were joined at the head?
Ben Carson
200
What year did Dr. Ben Carson successfull separate siamse twins joined at the head?
1987
200
Who did much of his research with pea plants and discovered genetics?
Gregor Mendel
200
What was created to treat diabeties?
Insulin
300
What type of biotechnology is the example of a fungus that is used to break down a wood preservative that contaminates the soil near old sawmills?
Enviroment
300
Who succesfully cloned a sheep in 1996?
Dr. Ian Wilmut
300
When was the first rabies vaccine developed by Louis Pasteur?
1883
300
Who won a Nobel Prize for thier work n the discovery of DNA's structure in 1953?
James Watson and Francis Crick
300
What did Rosalind Franklin discover to help us see inside our bodies?
X-ray
400
What type of biotechnology is a human growth horomone that is to counteract dwarfism?
Medicine
400
Who is known as The Father of The Green Revolution?
Dr. Norman Borlaug
400
When was AIDS identified as a disease?
1981
400
Who was credited with the birth of genetic engineering?
Stanley Cohen and Herbert Boyer
400
What was used to help clean up a major oil spill in Alaska?
Bacteria(Natural Oil Eating)
500
What is this following fact an example of: Contact lens soultions contain emzymes to break down protiens that build up on lenses?
Food and Consumer Goods
500
Who invented the process of pasteurization?
Louis Pasteur
500
What year was the DNA figureprint techniqeue developed?
1984
500
Who's idea did James Watson and Francis Crick steal relating to the discovery of DNA?
Rosalind Franklin
500
What is the project that was used to locate and identify every gene in the human body and what it does?
Human Genome Project