DNA and RNA
This base pairs with adenine in DNA.
What is thymine?
A kind of microscope that uses electrons to see very small structures inside of cells.
What is an electron microscope?
This virus caused the 2020 global pandemic.
What is Covid-19 (SARS-CoV-2)?
What are antibiotics?
In the TV show Breaking Bad, this compound is illegally synthesized by Walt and Jesse.
What is methamphetamine?
What are histones?
We use this dish to grow bacteria or fungi on solid nutrient media.
What is a petri dish?
These small organisms are eukaryotic and can be unicellular, like yeast, or multicellular, like mushrooms.
What are fungi?
This process builds long-term immunity through exposing the immune system to weakened pathogens.
What is vaccination/immunization?
This animated series features a mad scientist who drags his grandson on crazy sci-fi adventures.
What is Rick and Morty?
The process by which DNA is used to make RNA.
What is transcription?
This separates proteins based on their size by using an electric current.
What is gel electrophoresis?
These tiny organisms are prokaryotic and can cause infections like strep throat.
This hormone, first produced using recombinant DNA technology, is used to treat diabetes.
What is insulin?
In this 1993 film, scientists clone dinosaurs using DNA extracted from mosquitoes in amber.
What is Jurassic Park?
This type of RNA carries amino acids to the ribosome.
What is tRNA?
This is used to make millions of copies of a specific DNA sequence.
What is PCR (polymerase chain reaction)?
These viruses only infect bacteria.
What are bacteriophages (phages)?
This was the first vaccine ever created, made by Edward Jenner in 1796.
What is the smallpox vaccine?
The Hulk is transformed due to exposure to this type of radiation in an experiment.
What is gamma radiation?
This enzyme unwinds the DNA double helix during replication.
What is helicase?
What are the three steps of PCR?
Denaturation, annealing, and extension.
These viruses have an RNA genome and replicate using reverse transcription.
What are retroviruses?
This technique allows scientists to make targeted changes in DNA. It is often called “gene editing.”
What is CRISPR (CRISPR-Cas9)?
In the video game The Last of Us, this fungi turns humans into monsters.
What is cordyceps?