DNA Synthesis
The Central Dogma
Biotechnology
Mammoth
Tasmanian Tiger
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Ecology
100
This enzyme unzips the DNA double helix during replication.
What is helicase?
100
This nucleic acid carries genetic information from DNA to the ribosome.
What is mRNA?
100
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What plant is the agarose gel used for gel electrophoresis derived from?
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What is seaweed?
100
The woolly mammoth was most closely related to this modern-day animal.
What is the Asian elephant?
100
The Tasmanian tiger was actually this type of animal (known for its pouch), despite its name.
What is a marsupial?
100
This type of fossilized tree resin can preserve entire organisms, including ancient insects.
What is amber or copal?
100
The Tasmanian tiger’s extinction likely had this ecological effect on smaller herbivores and carnivores in the region.
What is an increase in their population?
200
After DNA replication, the newly synthesized strand undergoes proofreading by this enzyme to correct errors.
What is DNA polymerase?
200
This process converts DNA into RNA.
What is transcription?
200
This process involves inserting a gene from one organism into another organism's DNA.
What is genetic engineering?
200
Term for the ecosystem promoted by wooly mammoths in arctic environments.
What is the Mammoth Steppe Ecosystem?
200
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The Tasmanian tiger was one of these - an organism that has an extremely high impact on a particular ecosystem relative to its population.
What is a Keystone Species?
200
This genetic material can be found in mitochondria and is inherited solely from the mother.
What is mitochondrial DNA?
200
The restoration of the woolly mammoth is thought to help prevent this process, where thawing permafrost releases carbon back into the atmosphere, accelerating climate change.
What is the greenhouse effect? or global warming
300
This structure, formed during DNA replication, is the site where the two DNA strands are separated and replication occurs.
What is the replication fork?
300
During this process, mRNA is translated into a protein.
What is translation?
300
This technique is being explored to bring back the woolly mammoth.
What is cloning or genetic engineering?
300
The preservation of mammoth remains in this natural, icy substrate has allowed scientists to recover DNA for cloning efforts.
What is permafrost?
300
The Tasmanian tiger was native to this country.
What is Australia?
300
This bird species, once numbering in the billions in North America, was driven to extinction by the early 20th century due to overhunting and habitat destruction. The last known individual of this species, named Martha, lived in the Cincinnati Zoo and died in 1914.
What is the passenger pigeon?
300
The massive extinction event at the end of the Pleistocene led to the disappearance of several megafauna species, including the woolly mammoth, likely due to a combination of climate change and this factor.
What is human hunting?
400
This enzyme synthesizes new DNA strands by adding nucleotides.
What is DNA polymerase?
400
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In eukaryotes, the process of transcription occurs in this organelle.
What is the nucleus?
400
This is one of the primary goals of de-extinction efforts for species like the woolly mammoth.
What is ecosystem restoration?
400
The woolly mammoth went extinct approximately this many years ago, likely due to a combination of climate change and human activity.
What is 4,000 years ago?
400
Colossal Biosciences, the company leading de-extinction efforts on the Tasmanian Tiger, plans to use which marsupial species as the surrogate parent?
Fat-Tailed Dunnart
400
The first cloned animal was this sheep, famous for her name and groundbreaking scientific significance.
Who was Dolly?
400
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This is the amount of energy that moves through an ecosystem’s trophic levels decreases as it moves up the food chain.
What is 10%
500
This process ensures that the newly synthesized DNA strand is accurate by removing incorrectly paired nucleotides and replacing them with the correct ones during replication.
What is proofreading?
500
This type of RNA brings amino acids to the ribosome during translation.
What is tRNA?
500
In gel electrophoresis, DNA fragments are separated based on this physical property, which determines how far they travel through the gel.
What is size?
500
Woolly mammoths lived during this geological epoch, which is often referred to as the Ice Age.
What is The Pleistocene?
500
The last known Tasmanian tiger died in this decade.
1930s (1936)
500
This deadly, transmissible cancer causes facial tumors in Tasmanian devils and spreads through direct contact, such as biting during aggressive interactions.
What is Tasmanian Devil Facial Tumor Disease?
500
This ecological relationship involves one organism benefiting at the expense of another, often without killing it immediately, and can impact the population dynamics of both species.
What is parasitism?