Exam Questions and CORRECT Answers
immunochemistry - CORRECT ANSWER - -used to find antigens, proteins, and cancer in
specific tissues via antibodies
induced pluripotent stem-cell programming - CORRECT ANSWER - -tweaks adult cells
into stem cells to force them to express genes, to have properties of embryonic stem cells, to
model disease and study drug development
RT-qPCR - CORRECT ANSWER - -used to analyze gene expression (how much is gene
expressed?)
real time PCR - CORRECT ANSWER - -measures telomere length in humans
western blot - CORRECT ANSWER - -detects presence of specific proteins in a tissue
sample
transfection - CORRECT ANSWER - -gene control/silencing
-virus production
-protein production
-differentiation
viral vector - CORRECT ANSWER - -insertion of genes
-over expression of genes
Cre-lox - CORRECT ANSWER - -deletions, insertions, translations and inversions of
specific sites of DNA