Genetic Engineering and Synthetic Biology
This mammal was the first cloned mammal.
What is a sheep?
DNA stands for.
What is deoxyribonucleic acid?
Two main factors that contribute to ideal wildfire conditions.
What are increased global temperature and decreased relative humidity?
The circular unit of DNA that replicates independently of the chromosome.
What is a plasmid?
Bacteria being used in the Ashbloom Project (our project)
What is P. Putida?
The central dogma of biology.
What is DNA to RNA to Protein?
The four nucleobases used in DNA.
What are G, A, T, C? (or guanine, adenine, thymine, and cytosine)
According to FireSmart protocol, this zone, of the three zones within the Home Ignition Zone, first reduces risk of ignition
What is the immediate zone?
Lab Miniprep purpose
What is isolating plasmid DNA from cells?
The target biosurfactant we are trying to produce.
What are rhamnolipids?
Three applications of synthetic biology in the real world.
Manufacturing (biofuels), Medicine (Swine Flu Vaccines), Environmental Remediation (clean up oil spills), Agriculture (disease resistant).
This is what DNA stores and transmits.
What is information/ hereditary information?
The product used to slow or prevent the ignition of a fire.
What is a retardant?
The process used to run an agarose gel and the tool used to visualize the gel.
What is gel electrophoresis and UV light?
The number of sub teams on the UAlberta iGEM team. (100 bonus points if any team can name all of them)
What are 6 sub teams? (Wet Lab, Dry Lab, Wiki, Human Practices, Media, Ad/Fi)
Why are we able to recombine genetic material from different organisms and produce genetically modified organisms? (Non question answer form)
Because the basic chemical structure of genetic material in ALL organisms is the same.
The type of bonds that hold DNA strands together.
What is an H-bond/hydrogen bond?
List three out of the five responders to wildfires that were discussed. (200 bonus points to any team that can explain what each of their roles are)
What are Watch Towers, Forest Rangers and Ground Team, Incident Camps, Helicopters, and Airtankers?
The process needed to produce a gene insert that can be put into a plasmid.
What is a restriction digestion?
How does our project aim to achieve sustainability and remediation?(two answers needed, one for sustainability, and one for remediation)
What is using waste cooking oil to be sustainable? And what is adding plant growth hormone to achieve remediation?