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STS Final Examination

Total questions: 30

Worksheet time: 26mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Which of the following is NOT a product of nanotechnology?

a)

Carbon nanotubes

b)

Enigma machine

c)

Scratch-resistant pants

d)

Stain-resistant pants

2.

Which of the following is a NOT practical application of nanotechnology?

a)

A radiation detector made to detect a nuclear leak in Japan faster and more accurate than regular detectors

b)

Electronic tags that stick to car windscreens to pay fares on toll roads

c)

Graphene-based coating (nanopaint) used in blades of wind turbines and bodies of airplanes, saving weight and increasing efficiency

d)

Nanoprobes used on explorations of planetary and celestial bodies

3.

What is the usual dimensional size of a nanomaterial?

a)

1 nm to 1000 nm

b)

1 nm to 200 nm

c)

1 nm to 100 nm

d)

1 nm to 50 nm

4.

Which of the following is NOT a nanoparticle?

a)

Nanofibers

b)

Graphene

c)

Colloid

d)

Buckyballs

5.

What percentage of sunlight that falls on the Earth’s surface must be harnessed to meet Earth’s energy needs by 2030?

a)

30.00%

b)

3.00%

c)

0.30%

d)

0.03%

6.

Which of the following is a negative impact of nanotechnology on the environment?

a)

Aids in the remediation of environmental pollution

b)

Enhances efficiencies of monitoring devices

c)

Increases toxicological pollution on the environment due to the uncertain shape, size, and chemical compositions of some of the nanomaterials

d)

Increases the strengths of many materials and devices

7.

Which of the following defines Moore’s Law?

a)

It explains the positive effect described in economics and business that an additional user of a good or service has on the value of that product to others

b)

It is the observation that the number of transistors in a dense integrated circuit doubles about every two (2) years.

c)

It says that bandwidth grows at least three times faster than computer power.

d)

It states that the value of a telecommunications network is proportional to the square of the number of connected users of the system (n2).

8.

How can maximum productivity be achieved when using nanofactories?

a)

By having a two-dimensional array of micron-scale devices that are processing small molecular fragments that can produce larger structures in a matter of hours.

b)

By having a three-dimensional array of micron-scale devices that are processing small molecular fragments that can produce larger structures in a matter of hours.

c)

By having a two-dimensional array of micron-scale devices that can produce structures by rearranging the molecular structure of previously built ones.

d)

By having a three-dimensional array of micron-scale devices that can produce structures by rearranging the molecular structure of previously built ones.

9.

Which of the following uses the genetic material not as an information molecule but as a structure?

a)

Molecular self-assembly

b)

Lipid nanotechnology

c)

Protein engineering

d)

Structural DNA nanotechnology

10.

Which of these nanotechnologies was developed in Belgium used to harvest hydrogen from polluted air?

a)

Fuel Cells

b)

Nanomembrane

c)

Nanoparticle swarm

d)

Paper battery

11.

Which of these nanotechnologies was developed by Stanford University using thin cellulose infused with aligned carbon?

a)

Fuel Cells

b)

Nanomembrane

c)

Nanoparticle swarm

d)

Paper battery

12.

How much does the Philippine government allocate its budget in research and development?

a)

0.1%

b)

0.2%

c)

0.4%

d)

0.5%

13.

Which of these is the gene-editing technique composed of artificial restriction enzymes that consist of zinc finger repeats (DNA binding domain) and type II endonuclease Fok-1 (DNA cleavage domain)?

a)

CRISPR-Cas9

b)

TALENs

c)

ZFNs

d)

None of these

14.

Which of these is the gene-editing technique based on a prokaryotic immune system?

a)

CRISPR-Cas9

b)

TALENs

c)

ZFNs

d)

None of these

15.

Which of these is NOT a genetic process?

a)

Articulation

b)

Replication

c)

Transcription

d)

Translation

16.

What does CRISPR stand for?

a)

Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic RNA

b)

Clustered Restructured Interspaced Short Palindromic RNA

c)

Clustered RNA Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats

d)

Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats

17.

What does Cas stand for?

a)

CRISPR-Associated Palindrome

b)

CRISPR-Associated Protein

c)

CRISPR-Associated Prokaryote

d)

CRISPR-Associated Plasmid

18.

What makes up the current CRISPR system?

a)

A guide DNA and a Cas protein (Cas 9)

b)

A guide ribosome and a Cas protein (Cas 9)

c)

A guide RNA and a Cas protein (Cas 9)

d)

A guide RNA and a Cas plasmid (Cas 9)

19.

TRUE or FALSE

A guide RNA is a short synthetic RNA composed of a scaffold sequent necessary for Cas 9 binding, and the user-defined spacer or targeting sequent

(a)  

20.

TRUE or FALSE

Cas9 change the genomic target by changing the targeting sequent present in the guide RNA

(a)  

21.

Why are embryonic stem cells favored in the stem cell industry?

a)

They are easy to harvest from two-day-old embryos.

b)

They are easy to harvest from mature adipose tissues.

c)

They are pluripotent: they can easily differentiate into a variety of cell types.

d)

They are unipotent: they can easily differentiate into one type of cell

22.

TRUE or FALSE

In medicine, nanotechnology is applied by allowing associated drugs and therapeutics to reach diseased tissue and healthy cells.

(a)  

23.

In nanotechnology applications, solar cells absorbs both sunlight and indoor light and converts it into electricity. The basic concept is that Plastic is made using nanoscale titanium particles coated in photovoltaic dyes, which generate electricity when they absorb light.

(a)  

24.

TRUE or FALSE

For fuel cells, nanotechnology is applied by making the production of fuels from normal raw materials more efficient.

(a)  

25.

TRUE or FALSE

Nanotechnology uses catalyst to enable a chemical reaction at a lower temperature or make the reaction more effective to develop solutions to the very problem of water quality.

(a)  

26.

_______ _______ provide anti-microbial, anti-fungal. anti-yeasts, and anti-viral activities that used by companies on their food packaging products.

(a)  

27.

Which of the choices is in the Philippine Nanotechnology Development priority list?

a)

food packaging

b)

nanodevice fabrication

c)

water purification and in vitro diagnostics in healthcare

d)

environmental sensors and environmental treatment

e)

corrosion resistant ceramics

28.

He was the project leader of the DOST Roadmap for Nanotechnology Development.

(a)  

29.

What makes the statement FALSE about the application of nanotechnology in electronics?

Transistor sizes in integrated circuits are being reduced.

a)

transistor

b)

integrated

c)

reduced

d)

none of these

30.

Catalysts can lower the temperature at which raw materials are converted to fuel or increase the percentage of fuel burned at a given temperature.

This statement is TRUE for?

a)

Batter

b)

Fuels

c)

Better air quality

d)

Fuel cells