LinkSeq Jeopardy

LinkSeq

100

It's the software we love, fear, and occasionally curse when peak heights don't match and allele calls go rogue

SureTyper

200

This is the asset number for LC Chewy

TDX-05550

300

This is the SOP ID for the Assay Mix Form

TDX-OLI-DMR-FORM-0936

400

This is the double-stranded DNA binding dye used for measuring the amount of qPCR product in LinkSeq testing

SYBR Green

500

At LinkSeq, this instrument is universally loathed for its label tantrums, mechanical mood swings and uncanny ability to ruin your day before 9am

XL-100

Name That Artist

100

She asked you to 'just dance' in her debut single and was 'on the edge of glory' a few years later

Lady Gaga

200

This 13th century Persian poet is known for lines like "The wound is the place where the light enters you."

Rumi

300

This visual artist is famous for cutting off part of his own ear and for painting The Starry Night

Vincent Van Gogh

400

This 20th century American poet wrote Leaves of Grass and is often called the father of free verse

Walt Whitman

500

This multi-talented artist and musician fronted The Velvet Underground, painted soup cans, and once said, "In the future, everyone will be world-famous for 15 minutes."

Andy Warhol

Filmography

100

This is the director of '2001: A Space Odyssey'

Stanley Kubrick

200

This director is known for films like 'Apocalypse Now' and 'The Godfather'

Francis Ford Coppola

300

This South Korean film won Best Picture at the 2020 Academy Awards--the first non-English language film to do so.

Parasite

400

In this 2010 sci-fi thriller, dreams have dreams inside them, time moves like molasses, and it is directed by the same director of 'Intersteller'

Inception

500

Number 1 on AFI's 100 Years, 100 Films List

Citizen Kane

Science Stuffs

100

Who first discovered that DNA is a double-helix structure

Watson and Crick

200

Amino acids are known to have these two terminal groups

N-terminus and C-terminus

300

This enzyme is required for DNA replication in eukaryotes and has proofreading ability via its 3' to 5' exonuclease activity

DNA polymerase 

400

Known as 'sugar splitting' pathway, this 10-step process turns glucose into pyruvate and nets you 2 ATP. It's the biochemical equivalent of preheating the oven.

Glycolysis

500

This coenzyme, derived from niacin, is central to redox reactions and carries electrons in metabolism

NAD+ (nicotinamide Adenine Dinucleotide)

This is Us

100

'Could be the move'

Ryan Kim

200

'What the heck?'

Sarun Khoosuwan

300

'What's wrong with you?'

Arvin Matavousian 

400

'I'm tired of this, Grandpa!'

Lizette Rodriguez

500

'That's haram'

Briana Jimenez