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7. Which notable figure in the history of biotechnology is known as the Father of Medicine?
8. Which notable figures in the history of biotechnology are known for initiating the multibillion dollar
industry of biotechnology?
9. Who produced early data critical to the discovery of DNA, but was not given credit for her work because
she was a woman?
10. Who was the first surgeon to successfully separate Siamese twins joined at the head?
11. Who was known for research with wheat and feeding the world’s population?
12. Who described the structure of DNA and described how DNA carries genetic information?
13. Who headed the team that cloned Dolly using DNA from adult sheep cells and is know for ground-
breaking research and is an expert on cloning?
14. Who created a vaccine for rabies and pasteurized milk to kill bacteria?
26. What is the name of the billionaire who is the owner of the North Carolina Research Campus?
27. When microbes are grown so that their amino acids can be used to produce a product such as Equal®
sweetner it is an example of:
28. Genetically altered crops that can grow in exceptionally dry or wet, hot or cold climates are an example
of:
30. Microbes that can clean up waste water before it enters streams and lakes are an example of:
33. Upon which industries was North Carolina’s economy based in the past?
34. What is North Carolina’s current ranking in the United States for biotechnology?
35. Which product of yeast metabolism caused the balloon to inflate during our lab?
36. What is the name of the metabolic process that yeast go through to produce their by-products?
38. What is the name of the billionaire who is the owner of the North Carolina Research Campus?
39. What is the name of the person who first coined the term biotechnology?
40. To prepare for a job in the biotechnology field, it is important to take science and biotechnology classes,
but you should also take which kinds of classes?