SI Cell Bio Spring 2014 Questions related to Thompson et al paper 1 What are the findings of the paper What do they claim and what criteria so they use to determine their results 2 Roughly describe the experiment 3 Why did they distinguish between human and primate ES cells 4 How did they define and identify ES cells 5 What is a teratoma 6 How did they determine whether cells had differentiated 7 What are some applications of this research suggested by the authors 8 Summarize the information presented in figures 2 3 and 4 What cell types were compared in figure 2 Which types show high telomerase activity What is the dark band at the bottom noted with the arrowhead