Lab Practices
This tool is used to completely sterilize an innoculation loop.
What is a Bacticinerator?
A human drug used to combat diabetes that is now commonly produced through genetic engineering techniques.
What is insulin?
Hint: Vaccines are artificial active immunity
What is natural passive immunity?
A major proponent of aseptic technique for nursing during the Crimean War.
Who is Florence Nightingale?
A group of multi-cellular microbes that include roundworms, tapeworms, and more.
What are helminths?
Procedures designed and developed to prevent contamination and the spread of pathogenic microbes.
Restriction endonucleases produce these on the DNA strand after digestion that allow DNA to join together more easily.
What are Sticky Ends?
A shot commonly given to Rh- mothers to prevent an immune response to their offspring.
What is RhoGAM?
Created a series of postulates that helped determine whether a given microbe is the causative agent of disease.
Who is Robert Koch?
The name for a cluster of irregular, spherical-shaped cells.
Hint: This name is the same as a genus of common microbes.
What is staphylococcus?
This category of laboratory media inhibits some organisms while allowing others to grow.
What is selective media?
_____ is used to make crops that are resistant to insects.
What is recombinant DNA?
This complex system determines self from non-self tissues.
What is the Major Histo-combatibility Complex?
One of the first scientists to observe "animalcules" under a microscope.
Who is Antonie Von Loewenhoek?
The major component of the cell wall in gram-positive organisms
What is peptidoglycan?
This type of agar is primarily useful for allowing antibiotics and other molecules to diffuse within it.
What is Mueller-Hinton agar?
The 70s ribosome is a structure found only in these types of organisms?
Bacteria (and Archea)
A type of cell that in is crucial for activating B-cells and cytotoxic T-cells in the adaptive immune response.
What are Helper T-Cells?
A small sample of DNA can be amplified because of the discovery of this technique.
What is PCR?
These organizations track ongoing epidemics and pandemics in part through mandatory reporting and study of disease.
Who is the WHO and CDC?
Over-the-counter pregnancy tests belong to this class of antibody-antigen interaction tests.
What is ELISA?
A technology that can find, edit, and replace mutations within a genome
What is CRISPR?
Contact dermatitis is an example of Type ____ hypersensitivity.
What is type IV?
This researcher discovered transposons.
Who is Barbara McClintock?
A person with this blood type is known as a universal donor?
What is type O-?