General Genomics
The name of the first mammal cloned using nuclear transfer
What is Dolly?
This is the year that the Human Genome Project officially launched
What is 1990?
This type of Pentium CPU chip was in the first compute cluster used by JIm
What is Pentium III processors?
For five year's UCSC had two mascots, the Banana Slug and this animal
What is the sea lion?
One of these (rice or human) have a larger genome than the other
What is Rice?
The percentage of the human genome encodes for proteins (the exome)
What is ~1-2%?
UCSC's Nobel Laureate, Carol Grieder, has her designated parking spot on this floor of the Core West Parking Garage
What is 2nd floor?
This is the common name of the type of tree that is the historic UCSC's "Tree 9" located on the College 9/10 campus
What is Douglas Fir?
This species has the largest genome of all vertebrates at roughly 90 GB
What is a lungfish?
One major goal of the Human Genome Project was to identify all human genes. This is how many protein-coding genes the human genome contains
What is ~20,000–21,000?
This is the sport Professor Sofie Salama did at the collegiate level
What is Synchronized Swimming?
The name of the Software Tool that Jim Kent worked on at UCSC BEFORE he created the Genome Browser
What is "The Intronator" (when he worked in Al Zahler's lab, it was for the C. elegans genome)?
This is the major amino acid compound found in both Luria Broth and Cup Noodles
What is glutamate?
This is the chromosome that was the first to be fully sequenced as part of the HGP
What is Chromosome 22 (in 1999)?
At least one member of the Genomics Institute owns a geiger counter.
Who is Hiram Clawson?
This chromosome was the first to be assembled Telomere to Telomere and was acheived by the researchers at UCSC
What is Chromosome X?