Crossword Puzzle Competition- April 2018
Open to only the students of Department of Microbiology, UDSC
This crossword is the first in a series by Jatin Chadha and Lavanya Khullar (both M.Sc. students) that will be published once a month. Dear students of the Microbiology Department, put on your thinking caps and work out the answers!
The first correct entry will receive a small token from the Head of the Department.
Hard copies of entries in a sealed envelope will be received at the Office of Dr. Swati Saha till 12 Noon on the 4th of May 2018. Only one entry per person. The answers and winner will be announced on the 7th of May, 2018.
Puzzle-1 (April 2018)
ACROSS
4. Characteristic swarming colonies.
6. Great old man of intestine.
8. Antibiotic discovered using metagenomics.
11. Blood poisoning.
14. The father-son duo in molecular biology to have received Nobel prizes (Surname).
15. Disease caused by Helicobacter pylori.
17. Acronym for an antibiotic resistant S. aureus.
18. Most common method of horizontal gene transfer.
21. Father of Microbiology.
22. Microorganism known for causing Bioprecipitation.
24. Medium for isolation of H. pylori.
25. Sewage fungus.
26. Bacterial enzyme that destroys penicillin.
27. Hammerling’s alga.
28. Golden coloured clustered packets of cells.
DOWN
1. Developer of first synthetic microorganism.
2. Slippery, slimy bacterial “overcoat”.
3. Blue cheese.
5. First animal virus to be eradicated.
7. Method for protein estimation.
9. Site of bacterial DNA.
10. A chemical produced by Actinomyces responsible for “Petrichor”.
12. A toxin and wrinkle remover.
13. Fluorescent siderophore of Pseudomonas.
16. Origin of HeLa cell line
19. Largest bacterium.
20. Discoverer of streptomycin.
23. Father of Taxonomy.
Solution of Puzzle 1 (April 2018)
And the winners are-
First (all correct answers): Yash Chaudhary, Juhi Jain, Catherine Paul, and Vishal Dashora
Second (only one wrong answer): Sheeba Hoda
Catherine Paul and Juhi Jain receiving certificate for 1st position, on 18-May-2018