Chapter 7 Online quizzes

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How many chromosomes are there in each healthy human cell?

46 correct incorrect

26 correct incorrect

23 correct incorrect

64 correct incorrect

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How many base pairs of DNA are there in the human genome?

2.3 million correct incorrect

3.2 million correct incorrect

3.2 billion correct incorrect

46 billion correct incorrect

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What chemical group are the "terminators" (ddNTPs) used in DNA sequencing missing?

A,C,G,T correct incorrect

RNA correct incorrect

DNA correct incorrect

OH correct incorrect

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How many genes were found in the Human Genome project?

22,000 correct incorrect

220,000 correct incorrect

2001 correct incorrect

200,300 correct incorrect

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Which of these technologies is NOT used to produce "short" DNA reads?

Illumina: sequencing by synthesis correct incorrect

ABI: SOLiD correct incorrect

Pacific Biosciences correct incorrect

Roche 454 correct incorrect

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What is "complementary single-stranded DNA" abbreviated to?

compDNA correct incorrect

cDNA correct incorrect

RNA correct incorrect

cssDNA correct incorrect

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When did the Human Cell Atlas project begin?

2001 correct incorrect

2003 correct incorrect

2016 correct incorrect

2019 correct incorrect

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What are the two key elements of the CRISPR-Cas9 system for gene editing?

A Cas9 enzyme and a guide RNA (gRNA) correct incorrect

A Cas9 enzyme and a terminator (ddNTP) correct incorrect

A Zinc Finger nuclease and a guide RNA (gRNA) correct incorrect

A Cas9 enzyme and a chromosome correct incorrect

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What size are primer DNA molecules?

Tens of base pairs correct incorrect

Hundreds of base pairs correct incorrect

Thousands of base pairs correct incorrect

Millions of base pairs correct incorrect

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DNA sequencing technology, the ability to make edits to DNA sequences and the development of large pieces of artificial DNA sequence are all important new technologies. How many of them are needed to enable "synthetic biology" researchers to make new genomes?

None of them correct incorrect

One of them correct incorrect

Two of them correct incorrect

All of them correct incorrect