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This is the name of UGA’s live bulldog mascot.
What is Uga?
The root word meaning of "bio" in biotechnology.
What is "life"?
It is used to view small objects in detail.
What is a Microscope?
Environmental biotechnology involves making these types of fuels.
What are biofuels?
This UGA building houses engineering labs, makerspaces, and biotechnology research facilities.
What is the Interdisciplinary STEM Research Building?
This historic campus landmark is traditionally avoided by freshmen to prevent bad luck before graduation.
What is the The Arch?
The definition of biotechnology.
What is using living organisms or their products for commercial purposes?
A dish used in the lab to grow germs.
What is a petri dish?
Diagnostic biotechnology where they use DNA to solve a crime.
What is forensics?
This UGA research center is internationally known for studying carbohydrates and glycobiology.
What is the Complex Carbohydrate Research Center?
UGA is the nation's oldest public university, gaining its charter in this year.
What is 1785?
All living organisms are composed of these.
What are cells?
The process of generating a genetically identical copy of an organism or cell.
These genetically modified organisms are designed to have desirable traits like pest resistance.
What are GMOs (genetically modified organisms)?
UGA receives about this amount annually from the NIH, much of which supports biotech and biomedical research.
What is about $90 million?
This decade includes two of Georgia’s four national championship wins, making it the most successful decade in program history.
What is the 2020s?
UGA won back-to-back in 2021 and 2022
The master molecule in cells important to biotechnology.
What is DNA?
This technique is used to identify suspects and victims in forensics.
What is DNA fingerprinting?
Biotechnology is used to produce this hormone to treat people with diabetes.
What is insulin?
This University of Georgia biomedical engineering professor develops fast-acting biomaterials and coatings to prevent infection and improve wound treatment, with applications for military trauma care.
Who is Hitesh Handa?
UGA’s official motto is written in Latin is Docere, Servire, Inquirere and means what in English?
To teach, to serve, and to inquire into the nature of things.
The process of combining of DNA from two organisms.
What is a recombinant DNA?
A tool used to separate DNA fragments according to their size.
What is gel electrophoresis?
This biotechnology tool allows scientists to edit genes with high precision.
What is CRISPR?
This UGA bioengineering professor at the Regenerative Bioscience Center studies neural tissue engineering to help restore function after nerve injury.
Who is Cheryl Gomillion?