Quiz to assess general knowledge in molecular biology

Finish the sentence. Yeast belongs to … (a-c) and … (1-6)

What are lipid droplets?

A) Cellular organelles important for production, processing and transport of proteins and lipids.

B) Cellular organelles for storage of neutral lipids.

C) Cellular organelles generating chemical energy (or ATP).

D) Cellular organelles helping to synthesise proteins and produce ribosomes.

What are the functions of lipid droplets in yeast?

Genetically modified yeast can be used in pharmaceuticals as well as producing biofuels.

True

False

Synthetic biology provides a new approach to deal with the growing pollution problem.

True

False

Pick the correct statements.

A) The choice of yeast species does not play an important role in synthetic biology.

B) Yeast is a eukaryotic organism.

C) Yeast cells can be used as biofactories.

D) Saccharomyces cerevisiae is the predominant yeast used in synthetic biology.

E) Yeast is a prokaryotic organism.

Choose the fields, where baker's yeast is actively used:

What statements are true about lipids?

A) Lipids can't be extracted from cells.

B) Oxidation of the same amount of lipids provides twice as much energy as the oxidation of the same amount of carbohydrates.

C) There are cells, that don't contain lipids.

D) Some vitamins are lipid-soluble.

E) Some hormones are lipids.

F) Organic molecules insoluble in water are lipids.

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