Daddy Genetics
Gregor Mendel cross-pollinated these plants to study different characteristics
What are peas?
This commonly used, cell-safe buffer helps maintain a pH of around 7.4
What is phosphate-buffered saline (PBS)?
The term for the process that creates RNA from DNA.
What is transcription?
Any change in DNA is called this.
What is a mutation?
The average time it takes me to walk between the clinical and research labs using the stairs, rounded to the nearest minute.
What is 5 minutes?
Mendel used T to show the dominant allele for height. He used this letter to show the recessive allele.
What is t?
This alcohol is commonly used to dehydrate DNA.
What is ethanol (EtOH)?
This structure is the site of protein synthesis.
What is a ribosome?
DNA is the acronym for this molecule.
What is deoxyribonucleic acid?
The number of genes covered in the OncoPlex assay.
What is 373?
The notation TT or AA to a geneticist means there are this many dominant alleles in a genotype.
What is 2 (two)?
The aqueous solution of the organic compound commonly used as a tissue fixative.
What is formalin?
This nitrogen base is present in RNA but NOT in DNA.
What is uracil (U)?
This faculty member has contributed to practice-changing recommendations for prostate cancer.
Who is Colin Pritchard?
The probability of producing a tall pea plant from two heterozygous pea plants (tall is the dominant trait)
What is 75% (or three in four)?
This inorganic compound is used in library prep to denature double-stranded DNA.
What is sodium hydroxide (NaOH)?
This molecule acts as a copy of DNA and is present in the cytoplasm.
What is messenger RNA (mRNA)?
The average number of base pairs in the human genome.
What is 3.2 billion?
These three groups were integrated with the GSTL in March.
What are cytogenetics, cytogenomics, and the CDL?
In addition to being a biologist, Gregor Mendel was this type of religious leader.
What is an Augustinian friar and abbot?
This buffer solution is used to solubilize and protect the DNA during Covaris ultrasonication.
What is Low TE (or TE Low EDTA)?
This molecule carries amino acids during translation.
What is transfer RNA (tRNA) or soluble RNA (sRNA)?
The percentage of noncoding junk DNA in the human genome.
What is 98%?
The month Tina became our division head.
What is February?