Ligation
Transformation
Miniprepping
RE Digest
Sequencing
100

An enzyme that links two pieces of DNA together

What is DNA ligase?

100

The phase of bacterial growth when the nutrients in the growth medium are consumed

What is the stationary phase?

100

The name of the step where NaOH and SDS are add to the cells to cause them to burst

What is lysis?

100

An enzyme that cuts DNA at a specific site

What is a restriction enzyme?

100

The name of chain terminator sequencing method most widely used

What is Sanger Sequencing?

200

The part of a plasmid that is necessary to propogate the plasmid

What is the origin of replication?

200

The solid media on which bacteria grow

What is agar?

200

The name for the liquid above a pellet after centrifugation

What is supernatant?

200

All cut sites read the same forwards and backwards, which is know as this

What is a palindrome?

200

Nucleotides that cause DNA polymerase to terminate DNA synthesis

What are ddNTPs?

300

The antibiotic used to select for transformed bacteria

What is ampicillin?

300

After the DNA and bacteria are mixed together, this causes the DNA to pass through the bacterial cell wall

What is heat shock?

300

Where both genomic and plasmid DNA can be found in prokaryotic cells

What is the cytoplasm?

300

The type of cut that is made when there are overhangs left on the DNA strands

What is sticky?

300

The DNA sequence shown for the first 6 bases in the image

What is GAACTT?

400

The gene that, when expressed in the absence of an insert, is lethal to bacteria

What is EcoR47IR?

400
The name given to bacteria that are capable of taking up foreign pieces of DNA

What are competent cells?

400

A piece of DNA that results from being ligated into a plasmid

What is recombinant DNA?

400

The number of cuts made to a linear piece of DNA when four bands were visualized after electrophoresis

What is three?

400

The DNA sequence for the first 6 bases shown in the image.

What is ATGCCA?

500
The chemical used to activate the promoter of the lethal gene

What is IPTG?

500

The two chemicals used to make bacteria capable of taking up DNA

What are CaCl2 and DMSO?

500

The step when gDNA renatures and aggregates, and the high salt concentration precipitates the proteins

What is neutralization?

500

Cutting DNA into fragments and then figuring out their order

What is restriction enzyme mapping?

500

Terminator nucleotides are missing this functional group at the 3' position.

What is a hydroxyl group?