BACE PRACTICE EXAM 2025/2026 QUESTIONS WITH
ANSWERS TAGGED A+
✔✔What are the considerations for creating crops in biotech? - ✔✔Enhancing traits and
improving agricultural productivity.
✔✔What are the considerations for finding drug targets in biotech? - ✔✔Identifying
molecules or proteins for drug development.
✔✔What happens in the 3rd phase of a trial? - ✔✔Hundreds to thousands of people are
being monitored.
✔✔What is the purpose of the development phase? - ✔✔To refine and test the product.
✔✔What is OSHA's role in workplace safety? - ✔✔Regulating the safety of workers in
labs.
✔✔What is one standard OSHA had companies establish? - ✔✔Personal protection
equipment.
✔✔What happens in the commercialization stage? - ✔✔Marketing, manufacturing, and
distribution are studied and decided.
✔✔quality control - ✔✔sample/test stages of development while being overseen and
monitored by quality assurance
✔✔quality assurance - ✔✔sets the standards to assure the quality of the product for
quality control to follow
✔✔What is Biotechnology - ✔✔The use of biological systems, living organisms, or
derivatives thereof, to solve problems or make or modify useful products in industrial
processes
✔✔What are three industrial processes that use Biotechnology - ✔✔- Agriculture
-Food processing
-Medicine
✔✔What are "old" practices of Biotechnology - ✔✔-Using yeast to ferment beer and
leaven bread
-Using moldy soybeans to treat boils
-Bacteria used in sewage treatment
-Green Fluorescent Protein (GFP) isolated
,✔✔What are "new" practices of Biotechnology - ✔✔-US Supreme Court approves
patenting an organism
-Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR)
-Recombinant DNA enzyme used in cheese production
-Dolly the sheep
✔✔How is Biotechnology used by industrial sectors? - ✔✔-Basic research
-Applied research
-Improvement of manufacturing process
-Cost decrease
-New products
-Improvement of existing products and services
✔✔Personalized Medicine (aka Pharmacogenomics) - ✔✔Determine which drugs or
treatments would be best due to the patient's genotype or expressed differences
✔✔Biotechnology in Clinical Diagnosis - ✔✔Develop tests for the diagnosis of a
disease; home pregnancy tests and drug tests
✔✔Biotechnology in Treatment and Prevention - ✔✔Creation of therapeutic
compounds/genetic therapies and vaccines
✔✔Genetically Modified Organisms (GMO) - ✔✔Any genetic modification to an
organisms genome to improve survival, mass, and leftover quality
✔✔Biotechnology in the Textile Industry - ✔✔Improve efficiency, increase yields, and
reduce environmental impacts; leather and dye production
✔✔Biotechnology in Plastics - ✔✔Plant-based plastics take fewer resources to produce
and are biodegradable
✔✔Biotechnology in Energy - ✔✔Processing of fossil fuels to remove sulfur,
enhancement of oil recovery from in-ground crude oil, used in alternative energy
sources (ethanol and biogas)
✔✔What are the risks of Biotechnology? - ✔✔Technology-inherent: food safety and
behavior of a biotechnology-based product in the environment
Technology-transcending: how the technology is used and how it benefits or harms the
interests of different groups in society
✔✔Standard Operating Procedure (SOP) - ✔✔A single way to perform a common task
or process (step by step; like the Methods section)
, ✔✔Good Laboratory Practice (GLP) - ✔✔Government organizations may require the
preclinical trials and products be produced under certain standards; followed only when
the health or environmental effects of the product are important
✔✔Good Manufacturing Practices (GMP) - ✔✔A set of principles for ensuring the
quality and safety of manufactured products used in health care; EXTREMELY
expensive; followed only when the health or environmental effects of the product are
important
✔✔Main US Agencies - ✔✔-Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
-Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
-Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA)
✔✔GCP (good clinical practice) - ✔✔guidelines that ensure data generated in a clinical
trial is accurate, verifiable, and reproductive
✔✔PPE (personal protective equipment) - ✔✔safety glasses, apron, gloves, closed toe
shoes
✔✔SDS (Safety Data Sheet) - ✔✔Information required by law that tells the user safety
precautions, storage, disposal, etc. of a chemical (found in the office)
✔✔chemical fume hood - ✔✔a ventilated enclosure in a chemistry laboratory to draw
out toxic chemicals
✔✔Biological cabinet - ✔✔used for biological hazards/ pathogens
✔✔oxidizing symbol - ✔✔
✔✔health hazard symbol - ✔✔
✔✔environmental hazard symbol - ✔✔
✔✔compressed gas symbol - ✔✔
✔✔flammable symbol - ✔✔
✔✔explosive symbol - ✔✔
✔✔toxic symbol - ✔✔
✔✔corrosive symbol - ✔✔
✔✔general irritant/ acute toxicity symbol - ✔✔
ANSWERS TAGGED A+
✔✔What are the considerations for creating crops in biotech? - ✔✔Enhancing traits and
improving agricultural productivity.
✔✔What are the considerations for finding drug targets in biotech? - ✔✔Identifying
molecules or proteins for drug development.
✔✔What happens in the 3rd phase of a trial? - ✔✔Hundreds to thousands of people are
being monitored.
✔✔What is the purpose of the development phase? - ✔✔To refine and test the product.
✔✔What is OSHA's role in workplace safety? - ✔✔Regulating the safety of workers in
labs.
✔✔What is one standard OSHA had companies establish? - ✔✔Personal protection
equipment.
✔✔What happens in the commercialization stage? - ✔✔Marketing, manufacturing, and
distribution are studied and decided.
✔✔quality control - ✔✔sample/test stages of development while being overseen and
monitored by quality assurance
✔✔quality assurance - ✔✔sets the standards to assure the quality of the product for
quality control to follow
✔✔What is Biotechnology - ✔✔The use of biological systems, living organisms, or
derivatives thereof, to solve problems or make or modify useful products in industrial
processes
✔✔What are three industrial processes that use Biotechnology - ✔✔- Agriculture
-Food processing
-Medicine
✔✔What are "old" practices of Biotechnology - ✔✔-Using yeast to ferment beer and
leaven bread
-Using moldy soybeans to treat boils
-Bacteria used in sewage treatment
-Green Fluorescent Protein (GFP) isolated
,✔✔What are "new" practices of Biotechnology - ✔✔-US Supreme Court approves
patenting an organism
-Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR)
-Recombinant DNA enzyme used in cheese production
-Dolly the sheep
✔✔How is Biotechnology used by industrial sectors? - ✔✔-Basic research
-Applied research
-Improvement of manufacturing process
-Cost decrease
-New products
-Improvement of existing products and services
✔✔Personalized Medicine (aka Pharmacogenomics) - ✔✔Determine which drugs or
treatments would be best due to the patient's genotype or expressed differences
✔✔Biotechnology in Clinical Diagnosis - ✔✔Develop tests for the diagnosis of a
disease; home pregnancy tests and drug tests
✔✔Biotechnology in Treatment and Prevention - ✔✔Creation of therapeutic
compounds/genetic therapies and vaccines
✔✔Genetically Modified Organisms (GMO) - ✔✔Any genetic modification to an
organisms genome to improve survival, mass, and leftover quality
✔✔Biotechnology in the Textile Industry - ✔✔Improve efficiency, increase yields, and
reduce environmental impacts; leather and dye production
✔✔Biotechnology in Plastics - ✔✔Plant-based plastics take fewer resources to produce
and are biodegradable
✔✔Biotechnology in Energy - ✔✔Processing of fossil fuels to remove sulfur,
enhancement of oil recovery from in-ground crude oil, used in alternative energy
sources (ethanol and biogas)
✔✔What are the risks of Biotechnology? - ✔✔Technology-inherent: food safety and
behavior of a biotechnology-based product in the environment
Technology-transcending: how the technology is used and how it benefits or harms the
interests of different groups in society
✔✔Standard Operating Procedure (SOP) - ✔✔A single way to perform a common task
or process (step by step; like the Methods section)
, ✔✔Good Laboratory Practice (GLP) - ✔✔Government organizations may require the
preclinical trials and products be produced under certain standards; followed only when
the health or environmental effects of the product are important
✔✔Good Manufacturing Practices (GMP) - ✔✔A set of principles for ensuring the
quality and safety of manufactured products used in health care; EXTREMELY
expensive; followed only when the health or environmental effects of the product are
important
✔✔Main US Agencies - ✔✔-Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
-Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
-Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA)
✔✔GCP (good clinical practice) - ✔✔guidelines that ensure data generated in a clinical
trial is accurate, verifiable, and reproductive
✔✔PPE (personal protective equipment) - ✔✔safety glasses, apron, gloves, closed toe
shoes
✔✔SDS (Safety Data Sheet) - ✔✔Information required by law that tells the user safety
precautions, storage, disposal, etc. of a chemical (found in the office)
✔✔chemical fume hood - ✔✔a ventilated enclosure in a chemistry laboratory to draw
out toxic chemicals
✔✔Biological cabinet - ✔✔used for biological hazards/ pathogens
✔✔oxidizing symbol - ✔✔
✔✔health hazard symbol - ✔✔
✔✔environmental hazard symbol - ✔✔
✔✔compressed gas symbol - ✔✔
✔✔flammable symbol - ✔✔
✔✔explosive symbol - ✔✔
✔✔toxic symbol - ✔✔
✔✔corrosive symbol - ✔✔
✔✔general irritant/ acute toxicity symbol - ✔✔
