All About Phages
Phages are viruses that infect this type of organism
What are bacteria?
Bacteria are this type of cell, meaning they lack a nucleus.
What is prokaryotic?
Walter White of Breaking Bad is a high school teacher of this subject.
What is chemistry?
Bacteria cultures are often grown on these types of plates.
What is petri dish?
Never aging creature featured in Dracula and Sinners.
The name “bacteriophage” literally means this
What is “bacteria eater”?
Overusing antibiotics contributes to this growing public health problem.
What is antibiotic resistance?
This Christopher Nolan classic features time dilation and black holes.
What is Interstellar?
These two colors show up from Gram Staining.
What are blue/ purple and pink/ red?
This iconic serial killer is featured in the Scream franchise.
Who is Ghostface?
Two places where phages might be found
What are soil, freshwater, oceans, extreme environments, human gut?
Viruses are often considered non-living because they can’t do this without a host.
What is replicate?
Bruce Banner transformed into the Hulk after exposure to this kind of energy.
What is Gamma Radiation?
This technique maintains bacteria cultures at a specific controlled temperature and gas condition to encourage growth.
What is incubation?
In what colony did the infamous Salem witch trials take place?
What is Salem, Massachusetts?
Clear zone in bacteria lawn where phages have killed the cells.
What are plaques?
Of the flu, strep throat, and tuberculosis, this is the only one caused by a virus.
What is the flu?
In The Last of Us, the outbreak is caused by a mutated version of this real fungus that infects insects.
What is Cordyceps?
Nutrient-rich liquid growth medium used to cultivation E.coli.
What is LB broth?
What ancient Celtic festival marks the origins of Halloween?
What is Samhain?
These are the two phage life cycles, one that bursts the host cell and one that hides in its genome
What are lytic and lysogenic?
HIV belongs to this group of RNA viruses that use reverse transcriptase to make DNA.
What are retroviruses?
In Jurassic Park, scientists fill gaps in the dinosaur DNA sequences using DNA from this type of animal.
What is a frog?
This techniques separates DNA fragments by size.
What is gel electrophoresis?
This famous magician died on Halloween in 1926, exactly 100 years ago this year.
Who is Harry Houdini?