Molecular Biology
My x-ray crystallography studies were pivotal to determining that DNA had a helical.
Who is Rosalind Franklin?
I accidentally discovered the first antibiotic: penicillin.
Who is Alexander Fleming?
Jacques Monod is credited with saying that “what is true for __________ is true for the elephant”.
What is E. coli?
The largest university in Utah County.
What is Utah Valley University?
The two MMBIO faculty who are retiring at the end of this academic year.
Who are Brent Nielsen and Bill McCleary?
The amino acid coded for by the start codon.
What is methionine?
I am the French scientist whose work disproved the idea of spontaneous generation of life.
Who is Louis Pasteur?
This unusual amino acid is found in Gram-negative murein chains and nowhere else.
What is diaminopimelic acid?
Robert Redford bought his first two acres of this Utah County resort for $500 in 1961 and sold it in 2020.
What is Sundance?
The three MMBIO faculty who were not born U.S. citizens.
Who are Don Breakwell, Dave Erickson and Kim O’Neill?
Our experiments with bacteriophages helped to finalize the concept that DNA housed the genetic material.
Who are Hershey and Chase?
I developed early microscopes.
Who is Antonie van Leeuwenhoek?
These molecules made by rhizobia contain an oligosaccharide with a fatty acid chain and trigger some plant root hairs to swell, leading to symbiosis.
What are Nod factors (Nodulation factors)?
This Utah County city was originally called Hobble Creek.
What is Springville?
These three MMBIO faculty attended Stanford University.
Who are Joel Griffitts, Steve Johnson and Eric Wilson?
You can’t make yourself any taller, but I’m an enzyme can make your DNA longer!
What is telomerase?
I discovered bacteriophages in 1915.
Who is William Twort?
This model organism, only 200 nm long, was used by Luria and Delbrück to show that mutations arise in the absence of selection rather than in response to selection.
What is T4 phage (T-even)?
You’ll need to climb to 11,928 ft elevation to reach this summit, the highest in Utah County.
What is Mt. Nebo?
The three MMBIO faculty who became professors without doing a postdoc.
Who are Ryan Cordner, Mary Davis and Bill Zundel?
The number of chromosomes in an unfertilized human egg cell.
What is 23?
My work was pivotal to connecting microbes to the diseases that they cause.
Who is Robert Koch?
Heart attacks and strokes can be treated with this enzyme made by the bacterium that killed Beth March.
What is streptokinase?
Ren’s dance montage in the 1984 movie Footloose was filmed at this mill located in Vineyard, which closed in 2001.
What is Geneva Steel?
Four of the MMBIO faculty who have taught Immunology at BYU.
Who are Rich Robison, Kim O’Neill, Scott Weber, Sandra Hope?