CMBT EXAM QUESTIONS WITH ANSWERS

CMBT EXAM QUESTIONS WITH ANSWERS major biotechnology fields - ANSWER- pharmaceuticals, GMO foods, vaccines, industrial enzymes pharmaceutical manufacturing - ANSWER- recombinant DNA, bioreactors, purification GMO food - ANSWER- exogenous genes added to plants to improve yield on production or consumption improve production - ANSWER- yield, pest resistance, drought resistance improve consumption - ANSWER- freshness, allergenicity, nutrition content main health concerns - ANSWER- allergenicity, gene transfer, outcrossing influenza vaccine techniques - ANSWER- egg-based production, cell-based production, recombinant-based production egg-based production - ANSWER- virus is injected and grown in fertilized hen's eggs; need steady supply of egg, allergy issue cell-based production - ANSWER- small amount of egg-grown vaccine cultured in mammalian cell to replicate; supply issues, hard to culture, but better for allergies recombinant-based production - ANSWER- isolate genes from wild-type virus, insert into plasmid, grow in cells (often, bacteria); fastest route and no eggs industrial enzymes - ANSWER- Engineered proteins designed to catalyze specific chemical reactions