Competitive Structure
The annual iGEM competition held in October or November, where teams all around the world gather to present the projects they have been developing all year and compete for awards.
What is the Jamboree?
A small circular DNA molecule found in bacteria and some other microscopic organisms.
What is a plasmid?
DNA that has been modified to include genes from multiple sources
What is recombinant DNA?
This protein with the initials RFP is often used as a marker to confirm/measure gene expression
What is Red Fluorescent Protein?
Theme/group that an iGEM project competes within, such as Agriculture, Bioremediation, Therapeutics, Oncology
What is a village?
specific sequences in DNA at which different restriction enzymes cut.
What is a restriction site?
tool or carrier (ex. plasmid) used to transfer foreign genetic material into another cell
What is a vector?
functioning unit of DNA under the control of a single promoter
What is an operon?
Change in genotype / phenotype of the recipient bacteria due to assimilation of external DNA by a cell
What is bacterial transformation?
Site of RNA polymerase binding, initiation site for gene transcription, "on switch"
What is a promoter?