Party Quiz Flashcards
8500 B.C.
Man domesticates a number of animals and cultivates some plants.
7500 B.C.
Man plants rice and millet and domesticates pigs and silkworm.
In Mesopotamia, Sumerians use yeast to make beer and wine.
6000 B.C.
4000 B.C.- 1600 A.D.
Early farmers, like those in Egypt and America, save seeds from plants that produce the best crops and plant them the next years to grow even better.
In 3500 B.C. what are the crops and animals that are grown and domesticated in Mesopotamia?
Corn, bean, squash, and turkey
In 3500 B.C. what are the crops and animals that are grown and domesticated in Andes and Amazonia?
potato, manioc, llama, and guinea pig
What is bacteriophage?
a virus that infects bacteria
The use of an electron microscope to identify and characterize a bacteriophage
194
In 1944, who tentatively identifies DNA as the true carrier of molecular information?
Oswald Avery
1951, Who discovers transposable elements or “jumping genes,” in corn?
McClintock
1951, Who discovers that the amounts of adenine, cytosine, guanine, and thymine differ among species, but the amount of adenine is always equal to that of thymine, and cytosine to guanine?
Erwin Chargaff
In 1952, He confirms DNA as the true carrier of molecular information.
Alfred Hershey
What year does Watson and Crick described the double-helix structure of the DNA?
1953
What year does the cell-culture techniques developed?
1954
In 1956, Konberg discovered this enzyme, leading the the understanding of how DNA is replicated.
DNA Polymerase I
Understanding of the structures of genes and how they work deepens.
1950s-1960s
This year, exploiting base pairing happened, and hybrid DNA-RNA molecules were created. Messenger DNA is discovered.
1960
This year, work on creating high-yielding varieties of major grains, especially wheat, corn, millet, and rice massively increased production of these crops in many countries-launching the Green Revolution.
1960s
They decipher the genetic code.
Nirenberg, Holley, and Khorana
The year that the earliest known patents for biotechnology in the Philippines are issued for the production of coenzyme Q-10 through fermentation and the process of preparing food and feed yeast from strawberry yeast, and its food composition.
1965
Scientific name of strawberry
Rhodotorula pilaminae
1960s-1970s
Propagation technique using embryo rescue for mutant makapuno coconut and orchids is developed at UPCA.
Specific restriction nucleases are identified, opening the way for gene cloning.
1970
1973, working with microorganisms they introduce a set of techniques that make it possible to splice genes, turning bacteria and yeast into miniature factories.
Stanley Cohen and Herbert Boyer
In 1974, Who are those biologist who attended Belgium’s University of Ghent?
Jozef Schell and Marc Van Montagu
Jozef Schell and Marc Van Montagu, showed that virulent strains of A. tumefaciens contain large loops of DNA called _______ within the cell
plasmid
In 1975, these people share the Nobel Prize for the discovery that the RNA can be transformed into DNA
David Baltimore, Renato Dulbecco, and Howard Temin
RNA can be transformed into DNA by an enzyme called ________ _____________.
Reverse transcriptase
1975, these are developed for detecting specific DNA sequences.
Colony hybridization and Southern blotting
The year that the first monoclonal antibodies are produced.
1975
When is the Asilomar conference on recombinant DNA held?
February 1975, in California
Mary-Dell Chilton and the team at the University of Washington learn that a portion of one plasmid causes the crown gall infection by inserting itself into the nucleus of a plant cell and integrating with its chromosomes.
1976
The tools of recombinant DNA are first applied to a human inherited disorder.
1976
1976, It is used for the prenatal diagnosis of alpha thalassemia.
Molecular Hybridization
Yeast genes are expressed in ________ bacteria.
E. coli
1978, His lab creates a symbolic version of the human insulin gene.
Herbert Boyer
National Institutes of Biotechnology and Applied Microbiology (BIOTECH) is established at the University of the Philippines, Los Banos (UPLB).
1978
Who is the president when the National Institutes of Biotechnology and Applied Microbiology (BIOTECH) is established at the University of the Philippines, Los Banos?
Pres. Ferdinand E. Marcos
The US Supreme Court decision in the case Diamond v. Chakrabarty upholds that anything made by the hand of a man is eligible for patenting.
1980
