FFA
Biotech History
Mitosis/Meiosis
Aseptic Procedure
Equipment
100
The colors used to represent FFA?
What are royal blue and yellow?
100
In 1665, Robert Hooke invented this to observe cells in cork
What is the compound microscope?
100
The division of somatic cells
What is mitosis?
100
The technique of keeping a Petri dish from being contaminated while performing a t-streak
What is clam shelling?
100
A vessel that uses water to heat or maintain a constant temperature
What is a water bath?
200
Competitive events that progress from the local, regional, state, and national level
What is a CDE?
200
In 1953 these two men discovered the double helix structure of DNA using x-Ray photos
Who are James Watson and Francis Crick?
200
Each member of a chromosome pair
What is a homolog?
200
A piece of equipment used to transfer cultures of bacteria to a petri dish that must be sterilized using an alcohol lamp
What is an inoculating loop?
200
Uses a HEPA filter to create a sterile environment using forced airflow
What is a laminar flow hood?
300
A model that contains Classroom/Lab, FFA, and SAE.
What is the 3-component model for Agricultural Education?
300
In 1863, Gregor Mendel used these to conduct the first genetics experiments.
What are pea plants?
300
A 2n cell with 46 chromosomes in people
What is a diploid cell?
300
An environment where nothing grows
What is a sterile environment?
300
These scales need to be calibrated before each use to ensure accuracy by tearing
What are digital scales?
400
Awards for outstanding SAEs
What are Proficiency Awards?
400
This university gets the credit for Paul Berg's development of recombinant DNA
What is Stanford?
400
The pinching of cell membranes during telophase
What is cytokinesis?
400
An environment where the researcher can grow only what they want to grow
What is an aseptic environment?
400
enables researchers to control humidity, temperature photo period, and photointensity
What is an environmental growth chamber?
500
The year that FFA was founded by W. Dwight Armstrong
What is 1928?
500
This technique for cloning was made popular by Dolly The Sheep in 1996
What is somatic cell nuclear transfer (SNCT)?
500
A sudden unexpected change in the genetic code of an organism caused by a glitch in mitosis or meiosis
What is a mutation?
500
Where individual colonies are easily identified in a T-Streak
What is the bottom left of the T?
500
The curve of the liquid in a graduated cylinder where measurements should be taken from the bottom
What is the meniscus?
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