CRISPR
This system enables scientists to edit parts of the human genome
What is CRISPR Cas 9?
This type of forensic evidence uses ballistics to analyze the scene of a crime
What is firearm identification?
This direct to consumer company can tell you things like your ancestry and which flavor of ice cream you are more likely to prefer based on genetics.
What is 23andme?
This technique is used to amplify a gene of interest.
What is polymerase chain reaction (PCR)?
This set of principles is used as guidelines for all clinical trials.
The enzyme portion of the CRISPR system that makes the cuts to the DNA
An individual's ___________ is unique. (This type of evidence) can be found by dusting.
What is a fingerprint?
This trait determines whether or not a person can withstand bitter taste or not.
What is the PTC trait?
In gel electrophoresis, DNA migrates towards this pole of the gel chamber.
What is the positive end (aka anode)?
This preventive treatment involves introducing an inactive antigen to the immune system.
What is vaccination?
This molecules serves to target the gene of interest in a CRISPR reaction
What is the guide RNA?
This type of DNA analysis involves looking at a special type of polymorphism.
What is STR (or VNTR) analysis?
This type of colon cancer is highly heritable.
What is HNPCC (Lynch Syndrome)?
This substance is used as a medium for DNA to migrate and be separated during gel electrophoresis.
What is agarose gel?
The number of phases drugs need to go through in order to pass the FDA approval?
What is 5?
What are bacteria/archaea?
This database is an index used by the United States criminal justice system.
What is CODIS?
What is cervical cancer?
This process allows one to transfer external DNA into a bacterial host.
What is transformation?
People from this indigenous American tribe were taken advantage of by Arizona State University in their genetics research.
What is the Havasupai tribe?
This scientist pioneered the use of CRISPR technology in her research
Who is Jennifer Doudna or Emmanuele Charpentier?
Brandon Mayfield was wrongly accused of this crime, despite him being in Portland, Oregon at the time it occurred.
What is the Madrid Train Bombing?
What is the type of genetic testing that allows for genetic information about an embryo to be known while it is still in vitro?
What is preimplantation genetic testing?
This type of screening allows one to see if a genetic change was successful in a bacterial host grown on LB agar.
What is blue/white screening?
This famous clinical trial in US history went on for over 40 years and redefined clinical trials today.
What is the Tuskegee Study?