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STEM students study stem cells
Breaking Bad Cancer
Feeling Like a Prokaryote
Searching for E.T.
100
This is the ability of stem cells to make more copies of themselves.
What is self-renew?
100
These are tumors that are relatively harmless because they don't invade neighboring tissue
What are benign tumors?
100
These type of cells undergo binary fission instead of mitosis?
What are prokaryotic cells?
100
This is the study of origin, evolution, and distribution of life in the universe.
What is astrobiology?
200
This biotechnology technique uses thermal cycling to create billions of copies of DNA.
What is PCR?
200
This is the ability of stem cells to develop into a variety of cells
What is differentiation?
200
All types of cancer are these type of diseases.
What are genetic diseases?
200
This is a biotechnology technique where scientists grow cells in the lab
What is cell culture?
200
These are organisms that live in extreme environmental conditions.
What are extremophiles?
300
This is a circular piece of DNA found in bacteria.
What is a plasmid?
300
Embryonic stem cells are harvested from these partially developed embryos.
What are blastocysts?
300
This is programmed cell death or suicide.
What is apoptosis?
300
This latin phrase describes an experiment done in a lab and not in a live person
What is in vitro?
300
This thought experiment tries to identify the number of communicating civilization in the Milky Way.
What is the Drake equation?
400
DNA made from the genes of multiple organisms.
What is recombinant DNA?
400
These are cells that are genetically programmed to make them as versatile as embryonic stem cells.
What are induced pluripotent stem cells?
400
This is the ability of cancer cells to relocate to different parts of the body.
What is metastasis?
400
This is a test to determine the cell membrane structure of bacteria.
What is a gram test?
400
Urey and Miller were able to create these organic molecule from atmospheric gases
What are amino acids?
500
This is the enzyme used in PCR that is harvested from bacteria found in hot geyers in Yellowstone
What is Taq polyermase?
500
Stem cells develop into these cells that are still capable of some differentiation.
What are committed progenitors?
500
This is the ability of tumors to develop their own network of blood vessels.
What is angiogenesis?
500
Cells from a tumor on this lady were immortalized in cell culture.
What is Henrietta Lacks?
500
This satellite is being used to search for earth-like planets.
What is Kepler?