QB READER BIOLOGY

Question 1

Born in Berlin in 1857, which microbiologist in 1898 coined the word “mitochondria” — meaning “thread granules” — for the organelles first observed by Albert von Kölliker, which were named “bioblasts” by Richard Altmann?

Answer 1

Carl BENDA

Question 2

Born in Zürich in 1817, which anatomist first discovered mitochondria in 1857, in the voluntary muscles of insects?

Answer 2

Albert von KÖLLIKER (accept Rudolf Albert KÖLLIKER)

Question 3

Apoptosis — or programmed cell-death — is contrasted with which process of traumatic cell-death?

Answer 3

NECROSIS

Question 4

Which initial stage of the process of apoptosis involves the cytoskeleton decoupling from the cell’s plasma membrane and bulging outwards?

Answer 4

BLEBbing

Question 5

Born in Bristol in 1597, which anatomist gives his name to the fibrous capsule covering the liver? Francis GLISSON (accept GLISSON’s capsule

Answer 5

Francis GLISSON (accept GLISSON’s capsule)

Question 6

Taking its name from the Latin for “sickle-shaped”, which ligament divides the liver into its left and right lobes?

Answer 6

the FALCIFORM ligament

Question 7

Which specialised phagocytic cells — confined to the lumen of the liver sinusoids — comprise the largest population of tissue-resident macrophages in the human body?

Answer 7

KUPFFER-Browicz cells (accept STELLATE macrophages)

Question 8

Which process involves copying a segment of DNA into RNA?

Answer 8

TRANSCRIPTION

Question 9

Which of the two types of transport tissue in vascular plants transports water upwards, from the roots to superterranean structures such as stems and leaves?

Answer 9

XYLEM

Question 10

Born near Zürich in 1817, which Swiss botanist coined the terms “xylem” and “phloem”, and discouraged Gregor Mendel from pursuing his work on genetics?

Answer 10

Carl Wilhelm von NÄGELI

Question 11

A sequence of ten reactions catalysed by enzymes, glycolysis is the metabolic pathway that converts glucose into which simplest example of the alpha-keto acids?

Answer 11

PYRUVATE (accept PYRUVIC acid, 2-OXOPROPANOIC acid, 2-OXOPROPIONIC acid, α-KETOPROPIONIC acid, ACETYLFORMIC acid, PYRORACEMIC acid, or ACETYLCARBOXYLIC acid)

Question 12

Which plasmodium is considered to transmit the most-deadly form of malaria?

Answer 12

Plasmodium FALCIPARUM

Question 13

Although not as deadly as Plasmodium falciparum, it does commonly induce death. Which plasmodium transmits the most-frequently-occurring form of recurrent malaria?

Answer 13

Plasmodium VIVAX

Question 14

Born in Hamburg in 1867, which German bacteriologist gives his name to the dye-solution used in cytogenetics to diagnose malaria?

Answer 14

Berthold Carl Gustav GIEMSA (accept the GIEMSA stain)