BIO 451 Exam 2 Review

This is specifically useful in biology and measures the force between the probe and the sample. 

• Scanning Tunneling Microscopy (STM)

• ViriChip

• Atomic Force Microscope (AFM)

What are uses for nanoparticles in the field of biology?

• Fluorescent labeling and optical coding

• Tumor destruction by chemical or thermal means

• Detection of pathogenic microorganism and/or specific proteins

• All Are Correct

What are individual substitutions of single nucleotides that do not affect the length of the DNA sequence?

• RFLP

• SNP

• VNTR

What is the term used to describe storage, retrieval, and analysis of data used to assess the function of the genome.

• Bioinformatics

• Epigenetics

• Polymorphisms

• DNA Chip

Improvement of the human race by selective breeding is known as:

• Gene Therapy

• Eugenics

• Epigenetics

• Recessive Conditions

_____ are double stranded DNA viruses which bind at the host cell surface. After taken into the cell and disassembled,

only the DNA enters the nucleus.

• Coronaviruses

• Rhinoviruses

• Adenoviruses

• None are correct

Which of the following is an important consideration of biological warfare?

• Dispersal

• Persistence of agent

• Incubation Time

• All are correct

If your mother has the blood type AB, and your father has the blood type O, what blood type(s) can you be?

• A

• B

• AB

• O

A VNTR Profile is a valuable tool to use to identify individual people, with the exception of:

• Fraternal Twins

• Two Cousins

• Identical Twins

• A parent and their child

Hematoxylin is _______, and stains _______ charged molecules like DNA.

• acidophilic, positively

•  acidophilic, negatively

• basophilic, positively

• basophilic, negatively