Gel Electrophoresis
Molecules
DNA
Miscellaneous
Counselors
100

The gel used in DNA electrophoresis is made up of these 2 components. 

What are buffer and agarose?

100

Lipids and Proteins are 2 of the 4 categories of molecules that make up the living cell. These are the other 2. 

What are carbohydrates and nucleic acids?

100
This is made up of a 5-carbon sugar, a phosphate group, and a nitrogenous base. 

What is a nucleotide?

100
The loop of the pipe cleaner at the end of each nucleotide in your homemade DNA molecules represents this molecule, which is attached to the third carbon of deoxyribose. 

What is a hydroxyl group?

100

This counselor likes cold weather. 

Who is Abby?

200

This is the unit of measurement used to measure the samples being loaded into a gel. 

What is microliters?

200

This enzyme was used to break down proteins during the DNA extraction from cheek cells. 

What is protease?

200

These are the two "large" nitrogen bases of DNA.

What are thymine and cytosine?

200

This hormone causes the ovary to release an egg.

What is estrogen?

200

This counselor does not know how to ride a bike?

Who is Sophia?

300

These size fragments will move the farthest through an agarose gel during gel electrophoresis. 

What is small?

300

These are the two types of biological molecules that make up most of all cell membranes.

What are lipids and proteins?

300

These are the two "small" nitrogen bases of DNA. 

What are adenine and guanine?

300

This is the amount of microliters in a milliliter?

What is 1000?

300

This counselor has a black belt in karate?

Who is Ishita?

400

This is the side of the gel that DNA will run toward in gel electrophoresis. 

What is the positive side?

400

The two strands of a double-stranded DNA molecule are held together by this weak bond. 

What are hydrogen bonds?

400

This is one of the ways to visualize genomic DNA with the naked eye. 

What is gel electrophoresis?

400

These two hormones are released from the brain and travel in the blood to the ovaries. 

What are FSH and LH?

400

This counselor went to six schools in six years. 

Who is Courtney?

500

This is the stop on the micropipette used to release a sample into a well. 

What is the first stop?

500

This is the molecule that can cut a DNA molecule at a specific nucleotide sequence.

What is a restriction enzyme?
500

This number carbon of deoxyribose is attached to the phosphate group in a nucleotide. 

What is number 5?

500

This hormone is produced and secreted by specialized nerve cells in the hypothalamus of the brain. 

What is GnRH?

500

This counselor has been to Uzbekistan?

Who is Audrey?