Medicine
where blood cells are made
What is bone marrow?
Kary Mullis, PhD
Who invented PCR?
DNA to RNA to Protein
What is the Central Dogma?
used to measure length in the metric system
What is a meter?
site of red blood cell production
What is the bone marrow?
most abundant cell type
What are red blood cells?
The first biotech company
What is Cetus?
DNA to RNA
What is transcription?
used to measure mass in the metric system
What is a gram?
site where Epo is made and you can find Epo mRNA
What is the kidney?
disease where red blood cells are low
What is anemia?
an enzyme that synthezises DNA using RNA as template
What is reverse transcriptase?
RNA to Protein
What is translation?
1000 times smaller than gram
What is a milligram?
two causes of anemia treatable with Epo
What are dialysis and cance chemotherapy?
organ that allows oxygen to enter the body
What is the lungs?
a bacterium isolated from a hot spring in Yellostone
What is Thermus aquaticus?
Method of DNA replication
What is Semi-Conservative?
1000 times smaller than a milligram
What is microgram?
Dr. Goldwasser used this substance to obtain 8mg of pure Epo.
What is Urine?
number of red blood cells in humans
What is 20-30 trillion?
the steps in PCR
What are denaturation, annealing and elongation?
Adaptor needed for translation
What is tRNA?
1000 times smaller than a microgram
What is a nanogram?
scientist that cloned the Epo cDNA
Who was Fu-Kuen Lin, PhD?