Question 1

Which co-discoverer of the double helix structure of DNA took “Photograph 51” but was not included in the 1962 Nobel Prize award with Watson, Crick, and Wilkins because Nobel prizes were not awarded posthumously?

Lise Meitner

Rosalind Franklin

Erwin Chargaff

Marie Curie

Question 2

Rolling circle amplification (RCA) was developed in the 1990s as an efficient alternative to traditional PCR methods. Which GE illustra kit features RCA and Phi29 DNA polymerase allowing you to skip plasmid prep completely?

iIllustra TempliPhi Kits

iIllustra Triple Prep Kit

illustra Single Cell Genomiphi Kit

illustra GFX PCR DNA and Gel Band Purification Kits

Question 3

How is CRISPR 2.0 different from CRISPR 1.0?

CRISPR 2.0 makes double-stranded breaks in DNA

CRISPR 2.0 be used to target multiple genes simultaneously

CRISPR 2.0 is a base-editing method to target individual letters in DNA or RNA

None of these

Question 4

What cell line shown in the image to the left was taken from a cervical-cancer biopsy and became the first immortal human cell line?

Eukaryote

Xenopus

Fruit Fly

HeLa

Question 5

Who coined the term “cell” to describe biological organisms in the 1665 book “Micrographia” from observations of plant cells that resembled the cells of honeycombs?

Robert Hooke

Theodor Schwann

Antonie van Leeuwenhoek

Robert William Boyle

Question 6

What serum supplier established filtration techniques using three 0.1 µm pore size filters to reduce contaminants without impact on cell performance?

HyClone

Seradigm

Mediatech

Gibco

Question 7

Whose portait to the left is credited with making revolutionary advances to the handmade paper craft and is noted as the inventor of wove paper an innovation used for high quality art and printing to this very day?

Michael Faraday

James Whatman

Joseph Priestley

Alexander Graham Bell

Question 8

PTFE (Polytetrafluoroethylene) was accidentally invented in 1938 by whom?

Percy Spencer

Arthur Fry

Charles Goodyear

Roy Plunkett

Question 9

What unique qualities about the GD/X syringe filter allow it to subsequently reduce blockage and increase volume throughput compared to other pre-filters.

It is a 0.8/0.2um filter membrane

The technology of the multi-layered gradient filter membrane

The housing of the syringe filter

None of these

Question 10

What are the names of the scientists who developed cross-linked dextran gel used for gel filtration which was launched by Pharmacia (Now GE Healthcare) in 1959?

Jerken Porath and Per Flodin

Carl Edvard Johansson and Hugo Theorell

Question 11

What scientist was awarded two Nobel Prizes in science (1952 and 1977) for his work using insulin to prove that proteins are comprised of a sequence of amino acids and for his studies sequencing a bacteriophage genome and establishing the dideoxy chain-termination method for nucleic acid sequencing?

Frederick Sanger

Walter Gilbert

Max Perutz

Paul Berg

Question 12

What year was General Electric (GE) founded?

1992

1942

1892

1842

Question 13

When was the world’s first recombinant protein produced in Escherichia coli?

1946

1956

1966

1976

Question 14

What is the historical importance of the myoglobin molecule seen in the illustration above resulted in a Nobel prize in 1962 to John Kendrew?

First 3D model of a protein solved

Led to the structure of DNA with Francis Crick and Rosaline Franklin

Led to the discovery of introns in eukaryotic DNA and the mechanism of gene-splicing

None of these

Question 15

Who invented the method of electrophoresis in 1931?

Mario Capecchi

Arnie Tiselius

Martin Evans

Craig Mello

Question 16

Two-dimensional gel electrophoresis or 2-D electrophoresis was first introduced by which two scientists in 1975?

Patrick H. O'Farrell and J. Klose

Martin Evans and Robert William Boyle

Question 17

Harry Towbin developed the technique for protein detection, but who coined the term Western Blotting?

Edwin Southern

Kary Mullis

Paul Nurse

W. Neal Burnette

Recharge Quiz

Question 1

Which co-discoverer of the double helix structure of DNA took “Photograph 51” but was not included in the 1962 Nobel Prize award with Watson, Crick, and Wilkins because Nobel prizes were not awarded posthumously?

Question 2

Rolling circle amplification (RCA) was developed in the 1990s as an efficient alternative to traditional PCR methods. Which GE illustra kit features RCA and Phi29 DNA polymerase allowing you to skip plasmid prep completely?

Question 3

How is CRISPR 2.0 different from CRISPR 1.0?

Question 4

What cell line shown in the image to the left was taken from a cervical-cancer biopsy and became the first immortal human cell line?

Question 5

Who coined the term “cell” to describe biological organisms in the 1665 book “Micrographia” from observations of plant cells that resembled the cells of honeycombs?

Question 6

What serum supplier established filtration techniques using three 0.1 µm pore size filters to reduce contaminants without impact on cell performance?

Question 7

Whose portait to the left is credited with making revolutionary advances to the handmade paper craft and is noted as the inventor of wove paper an innovation used for high quality art and printing to this very day?

Question 8

PTFE (Polytetrafluoroethylene) was accidentally invented in 1938 by whom?

Question 9

What unique qualities about the GD/X syringe filter allow it to subsequently reduce blockage and increase volume throughput compared to other pre-filters.

Question 10

What are the names of the scientists who developed cross-linked dextran gel used for gel filtration which was launched by Pharmacia (Now GE Healthcare) in 1959?

Question 11

Question 12

What year was General Electric (GE) founded?

Question 13

When was the world’s first recombinant protein produced in Escherichia coli?

Question 14

What is the historical importance of the myoglobin molecule seen in the illustration above resulted in a Nobel prize in 1962 to John Kendrew?

Question 15

Who invented the method of electrophoresis in 1931?

Question 16

Two-dimensional gel electrophoresis or 2-D electrophoresis was first introduced by which two scientists in 1975?

Question 17

Harry Towbin developed the technique for protein detection, but who coined the term Western Blotting?