Biology Lab Trivia
DNA in gel electrophoresis is pulled toward the positive or negative electrode?
What is positive?
What eDNA stands for
What's the organ that ambrosia beetles carry their fungi in?
What is the mycangium?
The room number of our lab
What is ISC 2092?
Which lab members play tennis?
Who are Cade and Colin?
GIS stands for what?
The age-old question: "What is eDNA??" Give it a go
Ambrosia beetles are attracted to what substance?
The names of our two eDNA sampling backpacks
What are Frank and Rose?
Name of Dr. Skelton's dog
Who is Josie?
How does the glass milk DNA extraction protocol isolate DNA?
Cells are lysed, then DNA binds specifically to a glass milk silica matrix under high salt conditions (NaI). The mixture is washed with buffers to remove proteins and cell debris, then the DNA is eluted with a low-salt buffer that detaches the DNA to be collected in water.
The decade that eDNA was first used to detect organisms
What are the mid-1980s?
At what location did Cade get out and push the boat to get unstuck from the mud?
What is Powhatan creek?
The current status of Stephanie's filtering progress bar
What is between 100 and 200?
Which lab member likes to bike?
Who is Logan?
What does a TapeStation do?
What is DNA & RNA sample quality control, verifying concentration, size, and integrity before sequencing?
Explain the difference between metabarcoding and barcoding
Barcoding aims to search for the DNA of a specific species, while metabarcoding examines whole communities
What primers does Logan use in his work?
What are ANML and MiFish primers?
Fill in the blank from our lab door: Come to the sponge side... we have ____
What are gemmules?
Who is French and has Australian citizenship?
Who is Sophie S.?
CTAB stands for what
What is Cetyltrimethylammonium bromide?
Why is ITS a commonly-used genetic marker to distinguish species? Where is it in the DNA?
ITS refers to a section of ribosomal DNA. Its flanking sequences are conserved, and it is highly variable even between closely-related species, which makes it suitable for phylogenetic inference.
Name 1 of the 2 terrestrial songbird species in Dr. Cristol's study that had higher mercury levels than all aquatic feeding birds
What are the Red-eyed Vireo or Carolina Wren?
The name of the printer in the lab
What is Lab Xerox WorkCentre 6515?
Who is Eat Reggie Biggins?