DNA Fingerprinting
DNA fingerprinting is commonly used in this field to help solve crimes by identifying suspects
What is forensic science?
Gel electrophoresis separates DNA fragments by using this type of current.
These are undifferentiated cells that can become any type of cell
What are stem cells?
The charge of a DNA molecule
What is a negative charge?
These are used to clean up large oil spills in the environment
What are oil eating/digesting bacteria?
Three things that DNA Fingerprinting can be used for
What is suspect ID, ID of endangered species, and paternity tests?
In gel electrophoresis, smaller DNA fragments move this way compared to larger fragments.
What is further or faster?
These three things are important uses of stem cells
What is that they can replace damaged cells, can grow organs for transplants, and can grow cells to test medications?
The building blocks of DNA are known as these
What are nucleotides?
Biotechnology can be used to treat these diseases
What is insulin, cystic fibrosis, and cancer cells?
This device/experimental process is used to show a DNA fingerprint of an individual as compared to a sample
What is gel electrophoresis
Required in order for gel electrophoresis to work
What is enough of a DNA sample?
These are two places that you can get stem cells from
These pairs of nitrogenous bases form the 'rungs' of the DNA ladder.
What are adenine-thymine and cytosine-guanine?
The most common type of gene therapy that includes processes like bacterial transformation
What is genetic engineering?
This process, often paired with DNA fingerprinting, is used to make more copies of a small DNA sample
What is a polymerase chain reaction (PCR)?
The definition of gel electrophoresis
What is a process that separates DNA by size?
The definition of cloning
What is the process of making an identical copy of a cell/organism?
This process copies DNA before cell division, ensuring each new cell has the same genetic material.
What is DNA replication?
What is Gene Therapy?
In paternity cases, this percentage match between a child’s and parent’s DNA can confirm a biological relationship.
What is 50%?
This substance, commonly used to make gels in electrophoresis, provides a matrix through which DNA fragments can be separated
What is agarose?
These are the two main types of cloning
What is therapeutic cloning and reproductive cloning?
This structure, shaped like a twisted ladder, describes the physical form of DNA
What is a double helix?
This is an international group of scientists that mapped the entire DNA sequence
What is the Human Genome Project?