Q 01/05

Doudna's Nobel-winning method is a way of editing what?

A) Genomes

B) Proteins

C) Antibodies

D) Cell membranes

Answer · why

A) Genomes

She and Charpentier were the first to propose in 2012 that a bacterial immune system could be programmed to rewrite DNA.

Q 02/05

Doudna shared the 2020 Nobel Prize with which scientist?

A) Francisco Mojica

B) Virginijus Šikšnys

C) Emmanuelle Charpentier

D) Rodolphe Barrangou

Answer · why

C) Emmanuelle Charpentier

It was the first science Nobel ever won by two women alone.

Q 03/05

Doudna's 2020 Nobel Prize was awarded in which category?

A) Physiology or Medicine

B) Chemistry

C) Physics

D) Economic Sciences

Answer · why

B) Chemistry

Many expected the medicine prize; the chemistry committee got there first.

Q 04/05

Doudna has been an investigator with the Howard Hughes Medical Institute since which year?

A) 1997

B) 2001

C) 2005

D) 2009

Answer · why

A) 1997

HHMI funds the person rather than the project, which gave her freedom to chase odd bacterial sequences.

Q 05/05

Doudna was born in 1964 in which city?

A) Ann Arbor, Michigan

B) Boston, Massachusetts

C) Portland, Oregon

D) Washington, D.C.

Answer · why

D) Washington, D.C.

Her father had a Ph.D. in English literature and her mother a master's in education.