Vocab
Any tool used to alter living organisms, or parts of organisms, to make or modify products that improve plants/animals for human benefit is known as _________ biotechnology.
What is agricultural?
What does a CBC stand for?
What is a complete blood count?
A species that if you pull it out of the ecosystem, the whole thing comes undone.
What is a keystone species?
A DNA microarray designed to detect all known viruses and to discover new ones.
What is a virochip?
Which chemical used in gram staining is bright purple in color?
What is crystal violet?
Research or testing done in a test tube, glass, or artificial environment
What is in vitro?
What blood cell forms blood clots to heal a cut?
What is platelets?
What do the bands on a gel represent?
What is DNA fragments and collectively represent the DNA profile for the individual?
How many total spots are found in most virochips?
What is 22,000?
What must be done to ensure the bacteria aren’t washed off the slide during gram staining process?
What is heat fixing bacteria to the slide?
Animals created by introducing genes from one species into the genome of another animal
What is transgenic animals?
What are 2 types of leukemia?
What is B-cell and T-cell?
Name 2 reasons elephant populations are threatened.
What is loss of habitat due to growing human population and demand for ivory (poaching)?
When two viral genomes co-infect the same host cell and exchange genetic segments, that is known as _________ in viruses.
What is recombination?
Gram stain positive bacteria will stain which color?
What is purple?
Transplant of an organ from one species into another, for example pig kidneys into a human
The name of a piece of equipment that can count blood cells quickly?
What is the relationship between the size of a DNA fragment and the distance it migrates in the gel?
What is the longer and further it moves the smaller the fragment?
Virus genomes contain regions that are conserved and regions that are variable. Which region hasn't changed through evolution?
What is conserved?
Who discovered gram staining technique in 1884?
Who is Hans CHristian Joachim Gram?
A branch of biotechnology that uses biological process (living organisms) to cleanup environmental contaminations (polluted/degraded ecosystems)
What is bioremediation?
How does leukemia affect white blood cell reproduction?
What is speeds up reproduction?
Name two properties of a good marker in a DNA profile.
What is high variability within the genetic material and something that is amplifiable across different samples.
When running a sample, what is used to label the DNA so the sample can be analyzed?
The cell wall of a gram stain positive bacteria is composed of a thick layer of ____________.
What is peptidoglycan?