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Bioinformatics Trivia

Decode DNA, outsmart AlphaFold, and prove your genome is more than just A, C, G, and T.

EXAMPLE QUESTIONS

What does the abbreviation DNA stand for?

Deoxyribonucleic acid

What was the name of the sheep born in Scotland in 1996 that became the first mammal cloned from an adult body cell?

Dolly

Which type of ancestry test traces a direct maternal line through a mother, her mother, and earlier generations?

Mitochondrial DNA

What molecule contains the roughly 3 billion base pairs that make up the human genome?

DNA

What technique uses X-rays and protein crystals to determine a protein’s three-dimensional atomic structure?

X-ray crystallography