This is the common name for solidified carbon dioxide.
What is dry ice.
100
In this phase of the cell cycle, DNA is replicated before the cell can divide.
What is synthesis or S-phase.
100
Subventricular zone neural stem cells mature into neurons in this brain region.
What is the olfactory bulb.
100
These cells make up the majority of the human brain.
What are astrocytes.
100
Mice swim to find a submerged platform in this hippocampal-dependent spatial learning test.
What is the Morris water maze.
200
These two things are important steps after using most lab equipment.
What are cleaning up and shutting off.
OR
What are cleaning up and putting away.
200
In immunohistochemistry (staining), this protein binds in a species-specific manner.
What is a secondary antibody.
200
It takes approximately this long for stem cells in the dentate gyrus to form mature neurons.
What is four weeks.
200
A junction between a nerve cell and its target, consisting of a minute gap across which impulses pass by diffusion of a neurotransmitter.
What is a synapse.
200
Mice are considered to be adult at this age.
What is eight weeks.
300
In the polymerase chain reaction, these determine the specificity of the DNA sequence being amplified.
What are primers.
300
Bacterial DNA is stored in this structural form.
What is a plasmid.
300
This is the term for the chain of neuroblasts migrating from the subventricular zone to the anterior of the brain.
What is the rostral migratory stream.
300
Adult neural stem cells are commonly found in close proximity to these, which expose them growth factors and other exogenous signaling molecules.
What are blood vessels.
300
In this sentence: “Mice were injected at P21”, the “P” stands for this term.
What is postnatal day or postnatal.
400
In agarose gel electrophoresis, DNA migrates based on this biophysical property.
What is charge or negative charge.
400
Bromodeoxyuridine is incorporated into newly synthesized DNA in place of this nucleoside.
What is thymidine.
400
The Zhao lab uses this intermediate filament protein to distinguish adult neural stem cells from astrocytes.
What is nestin.
400
This white matter structure connects the two hemispheres of the brain.
What is the corpus callosum.
400
Breeding two heterozygous mice will yield a genotypic ratio of 1:2:1 according to this theory of genetic inheritance.
What is Mendelian genetics or Mendelian inheritance.
500
This compound with the chemical formula CH2O is a reactive electrophile that readily forms two new covalent bonds in a process referred to as cross-linking.
What is formaldehyde or paraformaldehyde (PFA).
500
Many new neurons do not survive to maturity; rather, they succumb to this process of programmed cell death.
What is apoptosis.
500
The name for this cell type is based on its similarity to stem cells in the developing cortex.
What are radial glia like cells?
500
Schwann cells are the peripheral nervous system counterpart to this cell type in the central nervous system.
What are oligodendrocytes.
500
This is the genus and species name given to the common laboratory mouse.