bioinformatics exam
questions and answers
What is Bioinformatics? - answer Bioinformatics
involve the technology that uses computers for
storage, retrieval, manipulation, and distribution
of information related to biological
macromolecules such as DNA, RNA, and proteins
What are some things that we use bioinformatics
for? - answer searching biological databases,
comparing sequences, looking at protein
structures, understand more about human disease,
drug design, forensic DNA analysis, agricultural
biotech
Who am I? discovered traits passed from parent to
offspring; coined term dominant and recessive. -
answer Gregor Mendel
Who am I? I created the term "gene" to describe
"factors" located on chromosomes; also developed
the chromosomal theory of heredity - answer
Walter Sutton
,Who am I? (2 People) demonstrated actions of
some genes modify actions of other genes; the first
time gene regulation was demonstrated - answer
Bateson and Punnett
Who am I? Recognized genes are carried on
chromosomes: the basis for modern genetics;
demonstrated the existence of sex-linked genes
and further explained trait linkage - answer
Thomas Morgan
Who am I? Mapped location of several fruit fly
genes. This was the first genetic map - answer
Alfred Sturtevant
Who am I? Developed technique of electrophoresis
for separating proteins - answer Arne Tiselius
Who Am I? found that amounts of adenine and
thymine and cytosine and guanine in DNA are
always about the same - answer Edwin Chargaff
These two people preformed x-ray crystallography
studies of DNA providing crucial information that
led to the elucidation of the structure of DNA -
answer Rosalind Franklin and Maurice Wilkins
, these two people proposed the double stranded,
helical, complementary, anti parallel model for DNA
- answer Watson and Crick
Who am I? announced the first complete sequence
of a protein, bovine insulin - answer Frederick
Sanger
Which two people worked out the "central dogma"
to explain protein synthesis from DNA to mRNA to
protein - answer Crick and Gamov
These three people cracked the "genetic code" a
sequence of three nucleotide bases (codon)
determining each amino acid - answer Nirenberg,
Mathaei, and Ochoa
I used restriction enzymes to cut DNA and ligase to
paste 2 DNA strands together to form the first
recombinant DNA molecule. Who am I ? - answer
Paul Berg
These two people were the first to successfully
transfer DNA from one life form to another; a
spliced viral DNA and a bacterial DNA to create a
plasmid with dual antibiotic resistance. Who are
we? - answer Cohen and Boyer
questions and answers
What is Bioinformatics? - answer Bioinformatics
involve the technology that uses computers for
storage, retrieval, manipulation, and distribution
of information related to biological
macromolecules such as DNA, RNA, and proteins
What are some things that we use bioinformatics
for? - answer searching biological databases,
comparing sequences, looking at protein
structures, understand more about human disease,
drug design, forensic DNA analysis, agricultural
biotech
Who am I? discovered traits passed from parent to
offspring; coined term dominant and recessive. -
answer Gregor Mendel
Who am I? I created the term "gene" to describe
"factors" located on chromosomes; also developed
the chromosomal theory of heredity - answer
Walter Sutton
,Who am I? (2 People) demonstrated actions of
some genes modify actions of other genes; the first
time gene regulation was demonstrated - answer
Bateson and Punnett
Who am I? Recognized genes are carried on
chromosomes: the basis for modern genetics;
demonstrated the existence of sex-linked genes
and further explained trait linkage - answer
Thomas Morgan
Who am I? Mapped location of several fruit fly
genes. This was the first genetic map - answer
Alfred Sturtevant
Who am I? Developed technique of electrophoresis
for separating proteins - answer Arne Tiselius
Who Am I? found that amounts of adenine and
thymine and cytosine and guanine in DNA are
always about the same - answer Edwin Chargaff
These two people preformed x-ray crystallography
studies of DNA providing crucial information that
led to the elucidation of the structure of DNA -
answer Rosalind Franklin and Maurice Wilkins
, these two people proposed the double stranded,
helical, complementary, anti parallel model for DNA
- answer Watson and Crick
Who am I? announced the first complete sequence
of a protein, bovine insulin - answer Frederick
Sanger
Which two people worked out the "central dogma"
to explain protein synthesis from DNA to mRNA to
protein - answer Crick and Gamov
These three people cracked the "genetic code" a
sequence of three nucleotide bases (codon)
determining each amino acid - answer Nirenberg,
Mathaei, and Ochoa
I used restriction enzymes to cut DNA and ligase to
paste 2 DNA strands together to form the first
recombinant DNA molecule. Who am I ? - answer
Paul Berg
These two people were the first to successfully
transfer DNA from one life form to another; a
spliced viral DNA and a bacterial DNA to create a
plasmid with dual antibiotic resistance. Who are
we? - answer Cohen and Boyer
