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HeLa Cell Line
Lacks Family
Lacks Legality
MicroBio
Miscellaneous
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The first and most prolifically used human cell line.
What is The HeLa Cell Line?
100
Born August 1, 1920 in Roanoke, Va.
What is Henrietta Lacks?
100
This group created a committee with two of Henrietta's descendents to oversee information of the HeLa cell genome.
What is the National Institute of Health?
100
This organelle contains most of the genetic information of the cell.
What is the Nucleus?
100
The University of South Florida was founded in this year.
What is 1956?
200
John's Hopkins physician George Otto Gey.
What is Henrietta Lack's physician?
200
Henrietta's first cousin and husband.
What is David Day?
200
This one hour HeLa cell documentary aired in 1998 on this network.
What is BBC?
200
The inventor of the microscope and first to observe microbes.
What is Antonie van Leeuwenhoek?
200
Hulk Hogan, Tony LaRussa and Leo Gallahger are all graduates of this University.
What is USF?
300
HeLa cells were used by Jonas Salk in the 1950's for a vaccination for this viral nervous inflammation disease.
What is Polio (Poliomyelitis)?
300
Rebecca Skloot.
What is the author of “The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks”?
300
Names used by John's Hopkins to keep Henrietta Lack's confidentiality.
What is Helen Lane or Helen Larson?
300
The virus responsible for causing some forms of cervical cancer.
What is the Human Papillomavirus?
300
The accent colors of USF.
What is Lemon Grass, Apple, Teal Green, Sky, Storm, Sea Glass, Grape, Pitaya, Rhubarb, and Espresso?
400
The active enzyme in Henrietta's cancer cells that propagated a repeated sequence at the ends of her chromosomes.
What is Telomerase?
400
Henrietta lack's birth name.
What is Loretta Pleasant?
400
Sequenced and published on March 11 2013 without the knowledge of the Lacks Family.
What is the HeLa genome?
400
Malignant cancer cells that spread to non-adjacent organs.
What is metastasis?
400
Tampa's tropical fruit nickname.
What is the Big Guava?
500
The Institute where HeLa cells were first produced and sold commercially.
What is The Tuskegee Institute?
500
Tommy Lacks.
What is Henrietta's Grandfather and or guardian?
500
The California Supreme Court Case deciding a person's discarded tissue and cells are not their property and can be commercialized.
What is Moore v. Regents of the University of California?
500
George Otto Gey, the scientist who propagated the HeLa cell line, passed away from this cancer.
What is pancreatic cancer?
500
The best Genetics/Microbiology/Honors Major Works professor at USF.
What is Professor El-Rady?