Party Quiz

Question 1

8500 B.C.

Answer 1

Man domesticates a number of animals and cultivates some plants.

Question 2

7500 B.C.

Answer 2

Man plants rice and millet and domesticates pigs and silkworm.

Question 3

In Mesopotamia, Sumerians use yeast to make beer and wine.

Answer 3

6000 B.C.

Question 4

4000 B.C.- 1600 A.D.

Answer 4

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.

Question 5

In 3500 B.C. what are the crops and animals that are grown and domesticated in Mesopotamia?

Answer 5

Corn, bean, squash, and turkey

Question 6

In 3500 B.C. what are the crops and animals that are grown and domesticated in Andes and Amazonia?

Answer 6

potato, manioc, llama, and guinea pig

Question 7

What is bacteriophage?

Answer 7

a virus that infects bacteria

Question 8

The use of an electron microscope to identify and characterize a bacteriophage

Answer 8

194

Question 9

In 1944, who tentatively identifies DNA as the true carrier of molecular information?

Answer 9

Oswald Avery

Question 10

1951, Who discovers transposable elements or “jumping genes,” in corn?

Answer 10

McClintock

Question 11

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?

Answer 11

Erwin Chargaff

Question 12

In 1952, He confirms DNA as the true carrier of molecular information.

Answer 12

Alfred Hershey

Question 13

What year does Watson and Crick described the double-helix structure of the DNA?

Answer 13

1953

Question 14

What year does the cell-culture techniques developed?

Answer 14

1954

Question 15

In 1956, Konberg discovered this enzyme, leading the the understanding of how DNA is replicated.

Answer 15

DNA Polymerase I

Question 16

Understanding of the structures of genes and how they work deepens.

Answer 16

1950s-1960s

Question 17

This year, exploiting base pairing happened, and hybrid DNA-RNA molecules were created. Messenger DNA is discovered.

Answer 17

1960

Question 18

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.

Answer 18

1960s

Question 19

They decipher the genetic code.

Answer 19

Nirenberg, Holley, and Khorana

Question 20

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.

Answer 20

1965

Question 21

Scientific name of strawberry

Answer 21

Rhodotorula pilaminae

Question 22

1960s-1970s

Answer 22

Propagation technique using embryo rescue for mutant makapuno coconut and orchids is developed at UPCA.

Question 23

Specific restriction nucleases are identified, opening the way for gene cloning.

Answer 23

1970

Question 24

1973, working with microorganisms they introduce a set of techniques that make it possible to splice genes, turning bacteria and yeast into miniature factories.

Answer 24

Stanley Cohen and Herbert Boyer

Question 25

In 1974, Who are those biologist who attended Belgium’s University of Ghent?

Answer 25

Jozef Schell and Marc Van Montagu

Question 26

Jozef Schell and Marc Van Montagu, showed that virulent strains of A. tumefaciens contain large loops of DNA called _______ within the cell

Answer 26

plasmid

Question 27

In 1975, these people share the Nobel Prize for the discovery that the RNA can be transformed into DNA

Answer 27

David Baltimore, Renato Dulbecco, and Howard Temin

Question 28

RNA can be transformed into DNA by an enzyme called ________ _____________.

Answer 28

Reverse transcriptase

Question 29

1975, these are developed for detecting specific DNA sequences.

Answer 29

Colony hybridization and Southern blotting

Question 30

The year that the first monoclonal antibodies are produced.

Answer 30

1975

Question 31

When is the Asilomar conference on recombinant DNA held?

Answer 31

February 1975, in California

Question 32

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.

Answer 32

1976

Question 33

The tools of recombinant DNA are first applied to a human inherited disorder.

Answer 33

1976

Question 34

1976, It is used for the prenatal diagnosis of alpha thalassemia.

Answer 34

Molecular Hybridization

Question 35

Yeast genes are expressed in ________ bacteria.

Answer 35

E. coli

Question 36

1978, His lab creates a symbolic version of the human insulin gene.

Answer 36

Herbert Boyer

Question 37

National Institutes of Biotechnology and Applied Microbiology (BIOTECH) is established at the University of the Philippines, Los Banos (UPLB).

Answer 37

1978

Question 38

Who is the president when the National Institutes of Biotechnology and Applied Microbiology (BIOTECH) is established at the University of the Philippines, Los Banos?

Answer 38

Pres. Ferdinand E. Marcos

Question 39

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.

Answer 39

1980