Which microorganism causes the silkworm disease pébrine?
Answer
Nosema bombycis
34719 Intermediate Trivia Questions
34719 public questions at this depth. How many can you answer?
What disease did Pasteur first successfully vaccinate against in birds?
Answer
chicken cholera
In what year was the Pasteur Institute founded?
Answer
1887
What property of organic molecules did Pasteur discover by studying tartaric acid crystals?
Answer
molecular chirality
What type of flask did Pasteur use to disprove spontaneous generation?
Answer
swan-neck flask
Who was the biologist that Pasteur disproved using his swan-neck flask experiment?
Answer
Félix Pouchet
What was the name of the nine-year-old boy who received the first rabies vaccine?
Answer
Joseph Meister
What was the title of Mendel's landmark paper on pea plants?
Answer
Experiments on Plant Hybrids
What is the name of Mendel's law that describes allele separation?
Answer
Law of Segregation
Which German botanist was one of the three rediscoverers of Mendel's laws?
Answer
Carl Correns
In which town did Mendel attend the Philosophical Institute?
Answer
Olomouc
What was the name of the society where Mendel presented his pea plant findings?
Answer
Natural History Society of Brno
Who was the Dutch botanist who independently rediscovered Mendel's laws?
Answer
Hugo de Vries
What is the genus name of the hawkweed plant that Mendel studied?
Answer
Hieracium
At which school did Mendel teach physics and natural history?
Answer
Realschule in Brno
Who was Mendel's botany professor at the University of Vienna?
Answer
Franz Unger
What was the name of the journal that published Mendel's pea plant experiments?
Answer
Proceedings of the Natural History Society of Brno
Which scientist coined the term 'Mendelian inheritance'?
Answer
William Bateson
Which famous physicist taught Gregor Mendel at the University of Vienna?
Answer
Christian Doppler
To which religious order did Gregor Mendel belong?
Answer
Augustinian
How many pea plants did Mendel grow in his experiments?
Answer
28,000
What is the term for a cross involving two traits?
Answer
Dihybrid cross
What was the name of the abbot who encouraged Mendel's experiments?
Answer
Cyril Napp
At which university did Mendel study for two years?
Answer
University of Vienna
What was Mendel's religious name after becoming a monk?
Answer
Gregor
What was the phenotypic ratio in Mendel's dihybrid cross?
Answer
9:3:3:1
Which Mendelian law states that genes for different traits are inherited independently?
Answer
Law of independent assortment
In what year were Mendel's laws rediscovered?
Answer
1900
What other plant did Mendel study after peas?
Answer
Hawkweed
How many years did Mendel conduct his pea plant experiments?
Answer
8 years
What is the term for the genetic makeup of an organism?
Answer
Genotype
Which Mendelian law states that alleles segregate randomly during gamete formation?
Answer
Law of Segregation
What technique did Rosalind Franklin use to obtain key DNA images?
Answer
X-ray crystallography
What type of replication did Watson and Crick's model imply for DNA?
Answer
semi-conservative
What part of the DNA molecule did Watson and Crick determine to be on the inside?
Answer
nitrogenous bases
What hypothesis did Francis Crick propose regarding the genetic code?
Answer
wobble hypothesis
Who was the head of the Cavendish Laboratory during Watson and Crick's work?
Answer
Lawrence Bragg