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100

The first cloned mammal in history

What is Dolly the sheep?

100

In gel electrophoresis, DNA migrates toward this electrode because the phosphate backbone carries an overall negative charge.

What is the positive electrode (anode)?

100

 New Hampshire State Animal

What is the White-tailed deer?

100

This professor's favorite place to vacation is Key West, FL.

Who is Dr. Cooke?

100

A buttery, flaky, and crescent-shaped pastry that anchors the French breakfast.

What is a croissant?

200

Which Nobel Prize-winning technique, introduced in 1993, consists of three main steps repeated in cycles?

Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR)

200

This freely available NCBI tool is used to align nucleotide or protein sequences against a database.

What is BLAST?

200

The company ARMI's acronym

What is Advanced Regenerative Manufacturing Institute?

200

Author of "Strategies for identifying new prions in yeast."

Who is Dr. Maclea?

200

This dish is a classic Canadian comfort food consisting of French fries topped with cheese curds and hot brown gravy.

What is poutine?

300

Black woman whose cancer cells were taken without her consent in 1951 at Johns Hopkins. Her cells became the first immortal human cell line, used in countless experiments — including polio vaccine development — and are still sold today under this name.

What are HeLa cells?

300

In Gene Set Enrichment Analysis (Hallmark pathway) analysis, this pathway is directly associated with low-oxygen conditions.

What is the Hypoxia pathway ? 

"mediated by HIF-1alpha"

300

The Amoskeag Manufacturing Company, whose mills defined Manchester's 19th -century economy, produced this material.

What is cotton cloth?

300

This professor stole a tadpole from their research lab and raised it as a pet in their college dorm.

Who is Dr. Johnson?

300

This dish is a traditional Japanese food made from fermented soybeans, renowned for its highly sticky, glue-like texture.

What is natto?

400

Shinya Yamanaka won the 2012 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for discovering that mature somatic cells could be reprogrammed to pluripotency by introducing these four transcription factors.

What are the Oct4, Sox2, Klf4, c-Myc?

400

This photoinitiator — activated by UV light — is used to crosslink gelatin methacryloyl (GelMA) hydrogels, a common bioink in extrusion-based 3D bioprinting.

What is LAP (lithium phenyl-2,4,6-trimethylbenzoylphosphinate)?

400
The project known as NoMADS, which was conducted at the UNH manchester campus in conjunction with NASA.

What is the Novel Methods of Antibiotic Discovery In Space?

400

Dr. Suh's main role when serving in the military.

What is an Interpreter?

400

This South Asian mixed rice dish features aromatic basmati rice, meat or vegetables, and spices such as saffron, cardamom, and cloves.

What is biriyani?

500

Jennifer Doudna and Emmanuelle Charpentier won the 2020 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for developing CRISPR-Cas9 gene editing. The molecular mechanism they harnessed was originally discovered in the adaptive immune system of this domain of life.

What are Bacteria (and Archaea)? — CRISPR is the prokaryotic adaptive immune system.

500

The new machine was purchased by the Suh lab to promote automation and reproducibility.

What is the OpenTrons Automated Assay Workstation Robot (AAW) from Millipore Sigma?

500

New Hampshire launched the first modern state lottery in the United States in 1964, using this name, to fund public education without an income or sales tax. 

What is the New Hampshire Sweepstakes?

500

The title of the NIH research grant awarded to Dr. Suh. (5 Correct Words or more passes)

What is "Utilizing Bioprinted Human Stem Cells for Molecular Screening via Multi-Material Strategies"?

(5 Correct Words or more passes)

500

Consumed by South Koreans on average 77 times per year.

What is ramyeon?

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