DNA
what does eDNA stand for
What is environmental deoxyribonucleic acid
This tiny schooling fish has a shiny silver stripe that reflects light like a mirror to confuse predators.
What is an Atlantic Silverside?
The instrument used to gather salinity data
What is a refractometer?
An instrument used to accurately dispense tiny volume amounts
What is a micropipette?
The fish that Gloucester overfished in the beginning of its history
What is cod?
The overal shape of a double stranded DNA molecule
What is a double helix?
Unlike ducks, this bird's feathers are not completely waterproof, which actually helps it dive deeper
What is the Double-Crested Cormorant?
The four 'vitals' taken during water sampling to monitor the health of the ocean
This laboratory technique makes millions of copies of a specific piece of DNA so scientists have enough to study.
What is PCR?
These two companies based in Gloucester are two of the largest fish distributers in the country!
What are Gortons and Birdseye?
A DNA strand is made up of these repeating molecules
What are base pairs/nucleotides?
This "living fossil" has survived for more than 450 million years and is more closely related to spiders than true crabs.
What is the Atlantic Horseshoe Crab?
The two main factors that determine the density of seawater
What are temperature and salinity?
The instrument used to run a PCR
What is a thermocycler?
The original name that Samuel de Champlain assigned to Gloucester when he first arrived here in 1606
What is 'Le Beauport"?
In DNA, adenine always pairs with this base
What is Thymine?
This species that can tolerate one of the widest ranges of temperatures and salinities, helping it become one of the world's most successful marine invaders.
What is the European Green Crab?
The normal range of this metric is around 8.0
What is pH?
The device used to set up eDNA water filtration
What is a vacuum manifold?
Before turning to fishing, what industry did Gloucesterites try and establish business in?
What is whaling and agriculture/lumber?
Four main environments that one can sample eDNA from
What are water, soil, stool, air
This fish makes an incredible migration of thousands of miles to spawn only in the Sargasso Sea.
What is the American Eel?
A phenomenon where nutrient rich deep water gets pushed to the surface and leads to a big population of marine life
What is upwelling?
The enzyme that is used in PCR to create new double stranded DNA
What is Taq Polymerase?
What year was Gortons of Gloucester and the Burnham Brother's Railway founded?
What is 1849?