Bioterrorism
This is the main way biotech can help TREAT during a bioterrorism attack.
What is antibiotics?
This is the main database run by NIH that contains many smaller databases.
What is NCBI?
This is the part of the food/macromolecule we were testing for modification in the GMO food lab.
What is the DNA?
This is what PCR stands for.
What is polymerase chain reaction?
This is what REE PE PA stands for.
What is results with evidence and explanation, possible errors, and practical applications?
These are the two most likely candidates for a bioweapon.
What is anthrax and smallpox?
This is approximately how many genes are in the human genome.
What is 23,000 (between 20,000-30,000 is acceptable)?
This is the organelle where the rbcL gene and many others in plants are found.
What is the chloroplast?
These are the three steps of PCR, in order
What is denaturation, annealing, and extension/elongation?
These are the four areas of Biotechnology.
What are agricultural, medical/pharmaceutical, diagnostic, and environmental/industrial?
These are the three forms of anthrax.
What are inhalation (lungs), cutaneous (skin), and ingestion (digestive)?
These are the primers to study plant species, and mammal species.
What are rbcL and COI?
This is the most common genetic modification made to crops.
What is being resistant to the herbicide RoundUp?
These are two uses of PCR.
What are paternity testing, body identification, forensics, etc?
This is the definition of bioethics.
What is applying moral values to decision-making on topics brought up by advances in biology, medicine, and technology?
These are two ways biotechnology can help PREVENT a bioterrorism attack.
What are vaccines and biosensors?
This is the letter used to represent an unknown nucleotide when sequencing can't identify the true base.
What is N?
These are two con arguments of GMOs.
What are allergies, horizontal gene transfer, superweeds, not tested long enough, etc?
This is the type of area of the human genome that should be targeted when using for identification.
What is a highly variable/region that is different in everyone?
These are two types of places that may conduct biotechnology, and the primary goal of each.
What is a nonprofit/research/university = science and biotech company (for profit) = make money?
These are 4 characteristics of a good bioweapon (from the weapon's point of view).
What is easily spread, very contagious, human-to-human spread, cheap, easy to manufacture, infectious during incubation period, etc.
These are the main steps of DNA barcoding (from sample to sequence).
What are DNA purification, PCR with correct primers, gel electrophoresis, send for sequencing to GeneWiz?
These are three pro arguments for GMOs
What are increased nutrition, increased yield, possibility of edible vaccines, less use of pesticides, better revenue for farmers, etc?
These are three reagents required for a PCR reaction.
What are Taq polymerase, dNTPs, primers, buffer, etc?
These are three goals and/or requirements of any experiment when designing.
What are reproducible data, data that can be repeated, unbiased data, controls, multiple trials, etc?