Glycoscience Quiz Answers

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Glycoscience Quiz Answers

Question 1)

What is glycoscience the study of?

• Carbohydrates
• Proteins
• DNA
• Lipids

Question 2)

What is the role of enzymes in a biorefinery?

• To covert the energy of sunlight into glucose
• To make complex sugars from monosaccharides and to breakdown complex sugars into monosaccharides
• To produce carbon dioxide
• To make complex sugars from monosaccharides

Question 3)

Which is an example of a biologic?

• Glivec
• Herceptin
• Seretide
• Symbicort

Question 4)

Which of the following biological processes is the glycocalyx NOT responsible for?

• Infection
• Blood grouping
• Immunity
• Osmotic lysis

Question 5)

Why are beta-glucans beneficial for health?

• Increased circulation
• Cholesterol lowering properties
• Diuretic
• Anti-inflammator

Question 6)

Which of the following is a carbohydrate polymer used for biomaterials?

• Polyethylene
• Polystyrene
• Polyvinyl chloride
• Cellulose

Question 7)

For which clinical condition is Herceptin used as a therapy?

• Diabetes
• HER2-negative breast cancer
• Kidney failure
• HER2-positive breast cancer

Question 8)

Why are natural blood products NOT normally used as therapeutics?

• Inability to purify product 
• Potential “unknown” contaminants
• Intellectual property considerations
• Stability in storage

Question 9)

In the production of a biopharmaceutical, “formulation” describes...

• Breakdown of product upon storage
• Product format for storage/delivery
• Competitive product (biosimilar) design
• Cell fermentation

Question 10)

Which system (cell factory) is normally used for production of a complex biopharmaceutical (e.g an antibody)?

• Yeast cell
• Mammalian cell
• Plant cell
• Bacterial cell

Question 11)

Which design format  of antibody would be most commonly manufactured today? 

• Human
• Chimeric
• Humanised
• Murine

Question 12)

What advantage does an antibody fragment offer over a full-size antibody?

• Greater specificity of target recognition
• Generated by molecular biology techniques
• Single polypeptide (amino acid) chain
• Expression in simpler expression systems (factories)

Question 13)

Enbrel® is an example of 

• A fusion protein
• A bispecific
• An affimer
• A hormone