Week 1: VMO, Terminologies

Question 1

University Vision

Answer 1

“A premier inclusive university of choice aspiring to improve man as man by developing individuals through a legacy of excellent education and compassionate value formation.”

Question 2

University Mission

Answer 2

“The Our Lady of Fatima University, together with Fatima Medical Science Foundation, Inc., is dedicated to the improvement of man as man through the holistic formation of individuals imbued with knowledge, skills, and virtues.”

Question 3

Program Vision

Answer 3

The College of Medical Laboratory Science envisions itself to be the premier institution in the provision of quality medical laboratory science education, research and practice by 2025.

Question 4

Program Mission

Answer 4

The College of Medical Laboratory Science aims to provide quality educational program that embodies excellence in laboratory science for the development of globally competitive, compassionate and highly-skilled medical laboratory scientists through competent educators and state of the art laboratory equipment and facilities.

Question 5

Core Values

Answer 5

A – Aspires To Do His Best
C – Credible And Compassionate
H – Hardworking And Honorable
I – Inspiration To Others
E – Efficient, Effective and Ethical
V – Visionary
E – Entrepreneurial, Employable and Excellent work habits
R – Responsible

Question 6

the study of inherited traits and their variation

Answer 6

Genetics

Question 7

the sum of all biological processes by which particular characteristics are transmitted from parents to their offspring

Answer 7

Heredity

Question 8

the units of heredity, which is the transmission of inherited traits; can be found on the nucleic acid DNA

Answer 8

Genes

Question 9

What are the nucleic acids?

Answer 9

DNA and RNA

Question 10

a molecule whose function is to store and transfer genetic information

Answer 10

DNA

Question 11

important molecule in protein synthesis

Answer 11

RNA

Question 12

Both DNA and RNA are polymers of repeating called?

Answer 12

Nucleotides

Question 13

There are ____ different nucleotides present in a DNA molecule.

Answer 13

4

Question 14

The _____________________ ultimately encode genetic information.

Answer 14

various sequence combinations of these bases

Question 15

What are the RNAs?

Answer 15

Messenger RNA (mRNA), Ribosomal RNA (rRNA), and Transfer RNA (tRNA)

Question 16

It carries the instructions for protein synthesis to the sites of protein synthesis.

Answer 16

Messenger RNA (mRNA)

Question 17

It combines with proteins to form ribosomes.

Answer 17

Ribosomal RNA (rRNA)

Question 18

RNA that delivers amino acids to the sites of protein synthesis.

Answer 18

Transfer RNA (tRNA)

Question 19

It is the complete set of genetic instructions characteristic of an organism, including protein-encoding genes and other DNA sequences

Answer 19

Genome

Question 20

Structures that are a product of DNA coiling in association with proteins.

Answer 20

Chromosomes

Question 21

Genes, the segment of DNA strand that encodes for the production of different proteins, may have different variants. These are called ________.

Answer 21

Alleles

Question 22

Alleles are products of _________.

Answer 22

Mutations

Question 23

Defined as any heritable change in the DNA sequence and are the source of all genetic variation.

Answer 23

Mutations

Question 24

Observable traits or features of an organism (alleles that are expressed).

Answer 24

Phenotype

Question 25

Set of alleles for a given trait carried by an organism (alleles that are present).

Answer 25

Genotype

Question 26

A type of cell division in which one somatic cell give rise to two new ones.

Answer 26

Mitosis

Question 27

Cell division involved in the production of gametes

Answer 27

Meiosis