People in Genetics
Intro Genetics
"Advanced" Genetics
Iowa State Faculty
Who Knows
100

This individual worked alongside Watson and Crick to discover the double helix structure of DNA

Who is Rosalind Franklin?

100

DNA->RNA->Protein

What is the central dogma of biology?
100

Adenine and Guanine

What are purines?

100

The genetics advisor

Who is Alison Esser?

100

Formerly Constantinople

What is Istanbul?
200


This individual's pea plants are the foundation of analytical genetics as we know it

Gregor Mendel

200

Threadlike structures made of protein and a single molecule of DNA.

Chromosome

200

mRNA splicing, 5' cap, and poly A tail

What are post transcriptional modifications?

200

Experiential Learning Coordinator, Biology, Genetics and Environmental Science

Who is Norah Warchola

200

This European landmark has 3 floors and lights the city of love

What is the Eiffel Tower?

300

Mathematically defined evolution in terms of change in allele frequency between generations

G. H. Hardy and Wilhelm Weinber

300

What is a punnet square?

300

9:3:3:1

What is the genotypic ratio of a dihybrid cross?

300

Dean of CALS

Daniel J. Robison

300

Holds the record for the fastest selling book in history

What is Harry Potter and the Deathly Hollows?

400

This individual's experiments with pneumonia infections in mice led to the discovery of horizontal gene transfer

Who is Fredrick Griffith?

400

A-T
C-G

What are the nucleotide pairings of DNA?

400

An inheritance pattern that typically skips generations in which two unaffected parents can have an affected child.

What is a Recessive pattern?

400

Dean of LAS

Kent Kerby

400

George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Theodore Rosevelt, and Abraham Lincoln were all former US presidents but they also have this in common.

Whose faces are on Mount Rushmore?

500

These two women won the nobel prize for their pioneering work in CRISPR gene editing

Emmanuelle Charpentier and Jennifer Doudna

500

These polymers differ only in their pentose-sugar

What is DNA and RNA?

500

The most common type of genetic variation among people

What is a single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP)?

500

Dean of CALS from 2006-2017 when she got promoted

Who is Wendy Wintersteen

500

Video game character with the signature phrase "Poyo!"

Who is Kirby?