Laboratory
This laboratory technique is used to rapidly make billions of copies of a specific DNA sequence
What is Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR)?
These are UK’s colors
What is blue and white?
Bacteria are this type of cell
What are prokaryotes?
This is the powerhouse of a eukaryotic cell
What are mitochondria?
This organelle is commonly associated with plants for carrying out photosynthesis
What is a chloroplast?
This model is commonly used before transitioning to clinical trials because of it’s similarities to humans and small size
What is a mouse model?
This is the official Kentucky state song
What is My Old Kentucky Home?
This hair-like organelle helps the bacterial cell move
What is the flagella?
This animal type is a warm-blooded vertebrate with hair or fur, a backbone, and four limbs
What is a mammal?
These two crops are the most common crops grown in Kentucky
What are soybeans and corn?
This laboratory technique separates molecules like DNA, RNA, or proteins by size and charge
What is gel electrophoresis?
This person founded the university in 1865
Who was John Bryan Bowman?
These are often confused with microorganisms when discussing diseases but are not considered living organisms
What is a virus?
This baby Pygmy hippo took the world by storm last year for her famously cute videos
(Fun fact: hippos have a bite force stronger than humans, polar bears, and jaguars)
Who is Moo Deng?
This man is considered the father of genetics because of his work with breeding pea plants
Who was Gregor Mendel?
This laboratory technique is used to identify and visualize specific proteins (antigens) in tissue samples
What is Immunohistochemical Staining?
This person was the original Wildcat, dancing and entertaining thousands of UK fans at Commonwealth Stadium and Rupp Arena during athletics events
Who is Gary Tanner?
These 6 bacteria are known as extremely in the health world due to their resistance to multiple antimicrobials
What are ESKAPE pathogens?
Apart from the platypus, this is the only other kind of mammal that lays eggs
What is an echidna?
Penicillin was originally found on this plant
What is a cantaloupe melon?
Blood agar is typically made with 5% sheep’s blood but can also be made with these two other species’ blood
What are horse and rabbit
Knowing that the university started as an agricultural college, this was the first name of UK
What is the Agricultural and Mechanical College of Kentucky?
Similar to how ITS sequencing is used to identify fungi, this type of sequencing is used to generally identify bacteria
What is 16S rRNA sequencing?
One of the most resistant mammals to snake bites and scorpions, this animal is native to Africa,known to be fierce, and simply “don’t care”
What is a honey badger?
This plant is often confused with Queen Anne’s Lace but is highly poisonous and is known as the poison that killed Socrates
What is poison hemlock?