Test Your Life Science Knowledge!

10 Questions | By Chen2001md | Last updated: Oct 31, 2016 | Total Attempts: 1195

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Let's have some fun! To celebrate our 20th Anniversary, OriGene wants to test your life science knowledge! We have created a quiz for you. If you answer all questions correctly, you will automatically enter to win an OriGene 20th Anniversary T-shirt and a $10 Amazon gift card! We will randomly select 50 winners! Quiz ends on Sunday, November 20, 2016.

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1.

In what year is OriGene Technologies founded as a research tool company?
- A.
  
  1994
- B.
  
  1995
- C.
  
  1996
- D.
  
  1999
- E.
  
  2001
2.

Cell culture is in vitro because (choose the best answer)?
- A.
  
  Cells are not touching each other
- B.
  
  Interactions with other cell types and 3D interactions are lost
- C.
  
  Cells have lost some proteins
- D.
  
  Changes occur in the cell membrane
3.

For adherent cells, adhesion provides a signal for cells to do which of the following?
- A.
  
  Grow and divide
- B.
  
  Transduce differentiation signals
- C.
  
  Enhance survival
- D.
  
  All of the above
4.

What does "CRISPR" stand for?
- A.
  
  Clustered Regularly Interdependent Short Palindromic Repeats
- B.
  
  Clustered Regularly Interference Short Palindromic Repeats
- C.
  
  Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats
- D.
  
  Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Polymer Repeats
5.

Which of the following products does OriGene offer? (Check All that apply)
- A.
  
  CDNA Clones
- B.
  
  CRISPR
- C.
  
  Antibodies
- D.
  
  Recombinant Human Proteins
- E.
  
  Human Cancer and Normal Tissue
- F.
  
  ShRNA
6.

Lentiviruses are a subclass of which virus strain?
- A.
  
  Retroviruses
- B.
  
  Adenoviruses
- C.
  
  Adeno-associated Viruses
- D.
  
  Herpes Viruses
7.

What cell types can lentiviral vectors infect? (Check all that apply)
- A.
  
  Non-dividing cells only
- B.
  
  Actively dividing cells
- C.
  
  Quiescent cells
8.

TrueORF Gold ORF clones are the only expression validated cDNA clones.
- A.
  
  True
- B.
  
  False
9.

What genes control transgene packaging during lentiviral transduction?
- A.
  
  Vif, vpr, and vpu
- B.
  
  Env, nef, and pol
- C.
  
  Rev, gag, and pol
10.

Which of the following are key features of OriGene's recombinant human proteins? (Select all that apply)
- A.
  
  Broadest Coverage
- B.
  
  Optimal preservation of protein structure, post-translational modifications and functions
- C.
  
  Diverse product formats
- D.
  
  Large scale production available