Smith Family
This person had meningitis
Who is Sue (Smith)?
The outbreak at Sue's college
What is meningitis?
A circular piece of DNA that is found in bacterial cells that contain accessory genes.
What is a plasmid?
Smoking cigaretes is this is the type of risk factor for lung cancer.
What is behavioral (lifestyle)?
The blood type of the universal donor.
What is O?
Had her thrid baby at age 42
Who is Judy (Smith)?
This bioinformatics tool was used to identify the outbreak at Sue's college by matching Sue's DNA with a data base of known pathogen's DNA
What is a BLAST?
In this coldest step of PCR, primers fix themselves on the region of the DNA molecule that will be amplified.
What is anneal (annealing)?
This term refers to uncontrollable cell division.
What is cancer?
Mike Smith received this after his arm was amputated.
What is a prosthetic (arm)?
This is a term given to any substance that dissolves another. Water is an example.
What is a solvent?
A "zig-zag cut" a restriction enzyme makes when it recognizes its DNA sequence
What are sticky ends?
You can easily tell a cancer cell from a normal cell because this part of the cell is larger in cancer cells.
What is the nucleus?
Louis was the best match for Diana's kidney donor because both his blood type and this were compatible
What is his halotype (tissue typing)?
This would be the tube dilution if 3 mL of protein sample was placed in a test tube that already contained 9 mL of water. Reduced to lowest terms of course.
What is 1/4 (quarter)?
This terms refer to the letters we use ina Punnett square For example Hh, HH, hh
What are genotypes?
This color in a microarray suggests the tumor suppressor gene is turned off in cancer cells.
What is red?
Grandpa Joe participated in a lung cancer study at the hospital and they performed this colorful test that measured his mRNA.
What is a DNA Microarray?
This is the branch of medicine that investigates outbreaks.
What is Epidemiology?
Down Syndrome (Trisomy-21) is this type of genetic disorder because it involves an extra chromosome.
What is Chromosomal disorders?
This diagnostic imaging technique does not use any form of radiation but it can be rather loud inside that closed donut machine.
What is magnetic resonance imaging (MRI)?