Module 1 - Biotech

The use of non-living organisms to make other products, or to improve animals or to develop microbes, is a simple definition of biotechnology.

Which of the following is a product made by biotechnology?

Who among the following develops grafting techniques for plant breeding in 300 BC?

Who among the scientists concluded in 1861 that all fermentations are the results of microbial activity?

Technology means something that helps us.

A tree is not an organism.

Microorganisms can only be seen with a microscope.

The prefix 'micro' means very large.

Scientists made the greatest advances in biotechnology within the past 75 years.

Biotechnology cannot help us in meeting our basic needs such as food, clothing, shelter, health and safety.

Biotechnology is a science that uses living things.

Biotechnology is a multi-disciplinary field.

Biotechnology is any technique that uses living organisms or substances from these organisms to make or modify a product.

Genetic Engineering is one of the known scope of Biotechnology.

What is Biotechnology?

The word biotechnology can be broken into two parts: bio- is a prefix that means 'life' or 'living things'; technology refers to the use of specific knowledge to change or develop processes and items that benefit people.

What do scientist commonly use instead of the word living things when describing biotechnology?

How can agricultural biotechnology have a positive impact on the environment?

What is a genetic engineering advancement directly related to a career in biotechnology?

In what way is biotechnology useful to law enforcement agencies such as PNP or NBI?

What are the oldest microbes that have been exploited by humans for their benefit in the ancient times?

Biotechnology is not new. It has been used for thousands of years for food and production and improvement of health.

Who are considered the founders of modern biotechnology?

Which scientist invented the smallpox vaccine?

What was the first human protein manufactured in a bacteria?

The U.S. Supreme Court ruled in 1980 that genetically altered life forms can be patented.

The first genetically engineered product approved for use by diabetics was human insulin produced using E.coli bacteria.

What is a polymerase chain reaction (PCR)?

The Human Genome Project was funded by Congress.

What is the name given to the genetically modified rice that provides beta-carotene?

'Flavr Savr' tomato was genetically engineered to resist rotting.

Dolly the sheep was cloned from sheep cells.

The U.S. Supreme Court rules that naturally occurring genes cannot be patented.

What is the name of the first targeted biological therapy of its kind to receive FDA approval?

The human embryonic stem cell lines were established in 2000.

The SARS virus was sequenced three weeks after its discovery.

What did Japanese scientists create in 2008?

A trachea derived from stem cells was transplanted into a human recipient in 2011.

The FDA issued draft guidelines for biosimilar drugs in 2013.

In 2010, researchers at the J. Craig Venter Institute created the first synthetic cell.

European scientists begin clinical trials for an anti-HIV biotech medicine produced using genetically modified tobacco.

Who is known as the 'father of Philippine Orchidology?

What are two significant contributions made by Ramon C. Barba to the field of biotechnology?

Who contributed significantly on rice research in the Philippines and is recognised as an authority on growing rice?

What three scientists are considered to be the early pioneers of modern biotechnology?

What is the 'one gene, one enzyme' hypothesis and who proposed this theory?

Linus Pauling described sickle cell anemia calling it a molecular disease.

Max Delbruck organized a course to study a type of bacterial virus consisting of a protein-coat containing DNA.

Erwin Chargaff determined there is always a ratio of 1:1 adenine to thymine in DNA.

Alfred Hershey and Margaret Chase used radioactive labelling to determine that it is the DNA, not protein which carries instructions in assembling new phages.

James Watson and Francis Crick determined the double helix structure of DNA.

Frederick Sanger sequenced insulin (protein) from pork and bovine insulin.

Arthur Kornberg discovered DNA polymerase.

Marshall Niroenberg and Severo Ochoa determined that a sequence of three nucleotide bases determine each of 20 amino acids.

Paul Berg, Stanley Cohen, and Herbert Boyer developed ways to cut and splice DNA using recombinant DNA techniques with restriction enzymes.

Stanley Cohen and Herbert Boyer produced the first recombinant DNA organism, beginning of genetic engineering considered to be the birth of modern biotechnology.

George Kohler and Cesar Milstein showed that fusing cells can generate monoclonal antibodies.