QBM Chapter 1 questions with verified answers
developed the experimental method, acid synthesis, distillation, crystallization
Ans✓✓-Geber
Major advancements in chemistry, atomic theory, elements, small molecule
synthesis Ans✓✓-1700-1900
Understanding of DNA, genes, proteins
Biochemistry, Microbiology, Genetics, Virology
1938: "Molecular Biology" by Warren Weaver Ans✓✓-1930s
Oswald Avery showed DNA was the basis for genes Ans✓✓-1944
Simple organisms used to perform biochemistry (E. coli, S. cerevisiae, Drosophila)
Ans✓✓-1900-present
Max Delbrück (1969 Nobel Prize with Hershey and Luria) at Cold Spring Harbor
was a physicist who believed the only biology was "quantitative biology", he
trained hundreds of scientists at a Phage Course (1945-1970) who went on to lay
the foundations of molecular biology Ans✓✓-Phage Research
Many functions
Ribonucleic acid
Various types: mRNA, tRNA, rRNA, microRNA, etc.
, Base pair with DNA, RNA
Interact with proteins Ans✓✓-RNA
Structure, inheritance
Birth of molecular biology
Deoxyribonucleic acid
Double stranded, 5'3' architecture Ans✓✓-DNA
Structure/Function
Variable Ans✓✓-Proteins
Recombinant DNA technology
Protein expression and purification
Has allowed for an understanding of cellular pathways and their control
mechanisms, protein-protein and protein-DNA interactions, and has provided a
better understanding of many diseases Ans✓✓-Molecular Biology
cloning, PCR, DNA manipulation, human genome, gene therapy Ans✓✓-
Recombinant DNA technology
developed the experimental method, acid synthesis, distillation, crystallization
Ans✓✓-Geber
Major advancements in chemistry, atomic theory, elements, small molecule
synthesis Ans✓✓-1700-1900
Understanding of DNA, genes, proteins
Biochemistry, Microbiology, Genetics, Virology
1938: "Molecular Biology" by Warren Weaver Ans✓✓-1930s
Oswald Avery showed DNA was the basis for genes Ans✓✓-1944
Simple organisms used to perform biochemistry (E. coli, S. cerevisiae, Drosophila)
Ans✓✓-1900-present
Max Delbrück (1969 Nobel Prize with Hershey and Luria) at Cold Spring Harbor
was a physicist who believed the only biology was "quantitative biology", he
trained hundreds of scientists at a Phage Course (1945-1970) who went on to lay
the foundations of molecular biology Ans✓✓-Phage Research
Many functions
Ribonucleic acid
Various types: mRNA, tRNA, rRNA, microRNA, etc.
, Base pair with DNA, RNA
Interact with proteins Ans✓✓-RNA
Structure, inheritance
Birth of molecular biology
Deoxyribonucleic acid
Double stranded, 5'3' architecture Ans✓✓-DNA
Structure/Function
Variable Ans✓✓-Proteins
Recombinant DNA technology
Protein expression and purification
Has allowed for an understanding of cellular pathways and their control
mechanisms, protein-protein and protein-DNA interactions, and has provided a
better understanding of many diseases Ans✓✓-Molecular Biology
cloning, PCR, DNA manipulation, human genome, gene therapy Ans✓✓-
Recombinant DNA technology
