Quiz 4 (60 points)
The quiz is due Midnight Sunday
Multiple Choice Questions: Select the one correct answer. (8 points each)
1) A common plant transfection technique utilizes
A) Phage virus
B) Electrophoresis
C) Soil bacterial plasmid
D) Yeast shuttle vector
2) Which is an advantage of a bacterial expression system?
A) Minimally complex growth media
B) Slow cell growth
C) Secretion to the medium
D) Proper post-translational folding
3) If you are asked to identify the presence of protein X in a mixture of 100 proteins (you have
sequence information on that protein and an antibody) which ONE of the following methods will
you use?
1) Silver Staining
2) Coomassie Blue
3) Western Blot
4) Real time RT-PCR
4) Which array would you chose to detect the presence of a protein from a blood sample?
A) Antibody microarray
B) Reverse-phase protein array