Yeast
C. elegans
Drosophila
Zebrafish
Mouse
100

Germans love to use baker's yeast for this beverage

What is beer?

100

The two gender types in worms

What are males and hermaphrodites

100

Number of chromosomes in the fly

What is four?

100

Know the phenotype. Don’t know gene responsible

What is a forward genetic screen?

100

Mouse constructed to overexpress a target gene

What is a transgenic mouse?

200

This plasmid is lost after 5FOA treatment

What is the URA3 plasmid?

200

Test cross of two dumpy worm strains that results in wild type offspring 

What is a Cis Trans Test? (Complementation, Two different genes)

200

Diet of a fruit fly

What is rotten fruit?

200

Large scale morpholino screen to study startle response pathway

What is a reverse genetic screen?

200

Sleep involves many genes and environmental factors

What is a complex trait?

300

Prey and bait to study interactors

What is two hybrid?

300

Specialized larval stage for enduring adverse conditions

What is dauer

300

The phenotype for UAS-GFP; Gal4

What is GFP positive

300

Sequence-specific nuclease used to generate gene knock outs 

What is CRISPR/Cas 9 (Zinc-finger nucleases (ZFNs), TALENs)?

300

Upon Cre expression, gut cells get randomly and stably labeled with one of the four colors

What is the Confetti Mouse

400

Mutant strain dies at 37˚C and is wild type at 25˚C

What is temperature sensitive?

400

Typical brood size for C. elegans

What is 300

400

Genetic tool allows lethal mutations to be maintained without selection

What are balancer chromosomes?

400

Equipment crucial for this technique

What is breeding and egg collection (microinjection)?

400

Positive selection marker when generating a knockout mouse

What is neomycin resistance

500

Human RNF4 rescues the yeast slx5∆ mutant phenotype

What is cross complementation?

500

Germ cells in the distal arm of the gonad do not have cell membranes (why is ideal place to inject DNA).

What is the syncitial region.

500

Embryonic lethal genes can be studied by creating mitotic clones anytime in any place (any cells, tissues, organs)

What is FRT/FLP Recombination Technology?


500

Zebrafish are fresh water fish native to this country

What is South Asia? (Napal, India, etc)

500

Inject human cells into a NSG  (NOD scid gamma) mouse

What is a xenograft model?

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