"When your ____ ____ dies, you can go to the nearest computer store, buy a new one, and swap it out." - Jay Keasling
100
Malaria
What does Artemisinin help cure?
200
Jay Keasling
Amyris Biotechnologies is a company started by?
200
preventing
"...we are spending trillions of dollars on healthcare and that _______ disease is obviously more desirable that treating it." -Drew Endy
200
DNA
According to Specter, what are scientist attempting to reconstruct to do things such as prevent disease or eliminate undesired traits?
300
Randy Rettburg, Gerald Sussman or Tom Knight
Name one of the 3 colleagues of Drew Endy that founded iGEM.
300
E. Coli
"...undergraduate students used BioBrick parts to genetically reprogram _____ (which generally smells awful) to smell like wintergreen when it grows and bananas when its finished growing."- Michael Specter
300
Adenine, cytosine, guanine and thymine
What is the "language of DNA?" (The Nucleotides)
400
Drew Endy
He was an assistant professor at M.I.T., eventually moving to Stanford; Started the BioBrick Foundation, and focused on developing standard parts for DNA. (Specter)
400
program
"This is just the beginning stage of being able to ______ life." - Juan Enriquez
400
Synthetic Biology
What term does Michael Specter prefer, Synthetic Biology or bioengineering?