An enzyme that links two pieces of DNA together
What is DNA ligase?
The phase of bacterial growth when the nutrients in the growth medium are consumed
What is the stationary phase?
The name of the step where NaOH and SDS are add to the cells to cause them to burst
What is lysis?
An enzyme that cuts DNA at a specific site
What is a restriction enzyme?
The name of chain terminator sequencing method most widely used
What is Sanger Sequencing?
The part of a plasmid that is necessary to propogate the plasmid
What is the origin of replication?
The solid media on which bacteria grow
What is agar?
The name for the liquid above a pellet after centrifugation
What is supernatant?
All cut sites read the same forwards and backwards, which is know as this
What is a palindrome?
Nucleotides that cause DNA polymerase to terminate DNA synthesis
What are ddNTPs?
The antibiotic used to select for transformed bacteria
What is ampicillin?
After the DNA and bacteria are mixed together, this causes the DNA to pass through the bacterial cell wall
What is heat shock?
Where both genomic and plasmid DNA can be found in prokaryotic cells
What is the cytoplasm?
The type of cut that is made when there are overhangs left on the DNA strands
What is sticky?
The DNA sequence shown for the first 6 bases in the image

What is GAACTT?
The gene that, when expressed in the absence of an insert, is lethal to bacteria
What is EcoR47IR?
What are competent cells?
A piece of DNA that results from being ligated into a plasmid
What is recombinant DNA?
The number of cuts made to a linear piece of DNA when four bands were visualized after electrophoresis
What is three?
The DNA sequence for the first 6 bases shown in the image.

What is ATGCCA?
What is IPTG?
The two chemicals used to make bacteria capable of taking up DNA
What are CaCl2 and DMSO?
The step when gDNA renatures and aggregates, and the high salt concentration precipitates the proteins
What is neutralization?
Cutting DNA into fragments and then figuring out their order
What is restriction enzyme mapping?
Terminator nucleotides are missing this functional group at the 3' position.
What is a hydroxyl group?