Question
Napoleone Ferrara’s lab at this company discovered both the tumor growth factor VEGF (“vej-F”) and its inhibitor Avastin. For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this Silicon Valley biotech company founded by Herb Boyer, who pioneered using recombinant DNA to express eukaryotic proteins in bacteria.
ANSWER: Genentech [or Genentech, Inc.]
[10e] Genentech’s first flagship product was an rDNA-based way of producing this hormone, which they licensed to Eli Lilly. This hormone, which until then had been harvested from pig pancreases, promotes blood glucose absorption.
ANSWER: insulin
[10m] The case Diamond v. Chakrabarty helped the biotech industry grow by legalizing a patent on a recombinant, oil-remediating strain of this genus. This genus’s highly-antibiotic resistant aeruginosa species causes many hospital-acquired infections.
ANSWER: Pseudomonas [accept Pseudomonas aeruginosa; accept Pseudomonas putida; prompt on P. aeruginosa or P. putida]
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| 2024 ARCADIA at Duke | 2024-12-06 | Y | 2 | 15.00 | 100% | 50% | 0% |
| 2024 ARCADIA at Missouri S&T | 2024-12-06 | Y | 2 | 10.00 | 100% | 0% | 0% |
| 2024 ARCADIA Online | 2025-05-17 | Y | 4 | 20.00 | 100% | 75% | 25% |
| 2024 ARCADIA at UC Berkeley | 2024-12-06 | Y | 2 | 20.00 | 100% | 50% | 50% |
| 2024 ARCADIA at Waterloo | 2024-11-09 | Y | 2 | 20.00 | 100% | 100% | 0% |
| 2024 ARCADIA at GT | 2024-12-06 | Y | 2 | 10.00 | 100% | 0% | 0% |
| 2024 ARCADIA at Illinois | 2024-11-09 | Y | 2 | 15.00 | 100% | 0% | 50% |
| 2024 ARCADIA at Claremont | 2024-11-02 | Y | 2 | 15.00 | 100% | 0% | 50% |
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| Truman | WashU | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |