Recursion Pharmaceuticals AI Quiz

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1. What is the core data type Recursion uses to train its AI models?
   • Microscope images of perturbed human cells
   • Patient electronic health records
   • Protein crystal structures
   • Genomic sequencing reads only
2. What does the Cell Painting technique do?
   • Colors lab equipment for tracking
   • Stains organelles with fluorescent dyes for multi-channel imaging
   • Paints tumors during surgery
   • Adds AI watermarks to images
3. Why does Recursion apply heavy batch-correction to its data?
   • To compress file sizes
   • To anonymize patient data
   • To remove technical artifacts so biological signal dominates
   • To speed up robot movement
4. Which company invested $50 million in Recursion in 2023?
   • Pfizer
   • Tesla
   • Amazon
   • NVIDIA
5. In 2024, Recursion merged with which AI drug-discovery company?
   • Exscientia
   • Insitro
   • Isomorphic Labs
   • DeepMind
6. What is the key real-world test of Recursion's platform?
   • Number of images generated
   • Whether AI-originated candidates succeed in human clinical trials
   • Robot speed
   • Social media engagement
7. What does Recursion's phenomics pipeline produce from images of perturbed cells?
   • A complete clinical diagnosis for each patient
   • A three-dimensional protein structure for every compound
   • Numerical fingerprints that summarize cellular morphology
   • A direct measurement of a drug's approval probability
8. How can Recursion use a phenomic fingerprint to nominate a possible drug hit?
   • Select the compound with the brightest microscope image in every assay
   • Choose the compound that changes no measured cell features
   • Assume a similar fingerprint proves clinical effectiveness in people
   • Look for a compound that shifts disease-altered cells toward a healthy reference state