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?