Advanced Biology Quantitative and Historical Facts

Advanced Biology

A collection of high-level biology questions focusing on historical milestones, molecular constants, and specific numerical biological data.

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15 Questions Hard Ages 18+ Oct 25, 2026

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1 In what year did James Watson and Francis Crick publish their seminal paper 'Molecular Structure of Nucleic Acids: A Structure for Deoxyribose Nucleic Acid' in the journal Nature?

A 1951
B 1953
C 1955
D 1957

2 The average diameter of a double-stranded DNA helix is approximately how many nanometers?

A 0.5 nm
B 1.0 nm
C 2.0 nm
D 3.4 nm

3 In the 1961 experiment by Marshall Nirenberg and Heinrich Matthaei, which synthetic RNA homopolymer was used to demonstrate that the codon 'UUU' codes for phenylalanine?

A Poly-A
B Poly-U
C Poly-C
D Poly-G

4 How many turns of the Calvin cycle are required to produce one net molecule of glyceraldehyde-3-phosphate (G3P)?

A 2
B 3
C 6
D 12

5 The enzyme RuBisCO consists of how many large subunits and how many small subunits in most higher plants?

A 4 large, 4 small
B 8 large, 8 small
C 6 large, 6 small
D 2 large, 2 small

6 Which scientist first described the process of transformation in Streptococcus pneumoniae in a 1928 paper?

A Oswald Avery
B Frederick Griffith
C Colin MacLeod
D Maclyn McCarty

7 What is the approximate molecular mass of an average amino acid residue in a protein, often cited as a standard for estimation?

A 110 Daltons
B 150 Daltons
C 220 Daltons
D 500 Daltons

8 In 1952, the Hershey-Chase experiment used which radioactive isotope to label the DNA of bacteriophage T2?

A Sulfur-35
B Carbon-14
C Phosphorus-32
D Nitrogen-15

9 How many ATP molecules are generated from the complete oxidation of one molecule of glucose in a eukaryotic cell, according to the modern accepted range including shuttle costs?

A 28-30
B 36-38
C 30-32
D 40-42

10 The mitochondrial genome in humans consists of approximately how many base pairs?

A 16,569 bp
B 10,240 bp
C 22,100 bp
D 5,000 bp

11 Barbara McClintock was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1983 for her discovery of what?

A Telomeres
B Mobile genetic elements
C Restriction enzymes
D Spliceosomes

12 During the cell cycle, the 'Restriction Point' (R point) where a cell becomes committed to the S phase occurs during which sub-phase?

A G0
B G1
C S
D G2

13 The enzyme telomerase is a ribonucleoprotein that contains an essential RNA component. What is the name of this RNA template in humans?

A hTR
B hTERT
C TERC
D Both a and c

14 How many hydrogen bonds form between a guanine-cytosine base pair in a DNA double helix?

15 In 1974, which two researchers shared a Nobel Prize for the discovery of the structure and function of the ribosome?

A Palade and Porter
B Claude and de Duve
C Sanger and Gilbert
D None of these

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