PI's Background!
What model organisms do Dr. Wehman and Dr. Dong use for their research?
The Wehman lab uses the model organism C. elegans, a small worm that’s key for studying cell biology and genetics.
The Dong lab uses Arabidopsis thaliana, a model in plant biology, to learn more about plant development and details of cell division.
This organelle is responsible for controlling the functions of the cell.
The nucleus
What is the name of the cell organelle which reads the complementary strand?
The ribosome
This is a term used in genetics referring to an organism's physical appearance.
Phenotype
What is the source of the energy required for photosynthesis.
The sun
Where did Dr. Wehman and Dr. Dong grow up?
Dr. Wehman: San Antonio, Texas
Dr. Dong: China
There are 4 reasons we know that viruses are not alive; name them
1. They are not made of cells and don't have cell parts. 2. They need a host in order to reproduce. 3. They do not grow and develop. 4. They do not respond to their environment.
What is the name of a bond that connects amino acids together?
A peptide bond
An organism that has two identical alleles for a trait is called this.
Homozygous
What do you call the first growth of a plant from a seed?
Germination
Where and in what field did Dr. Dong and Dr. Wehman receive their PhDs?
Dr. Dong: Ph.D. in Plant Biology, University of California at Riverside
Dr. Wehman: Ph.D. in Genetics, University of California, San Francisco
When a cell is put into a hypertonic solution, this happens to the cell?
Water leaves the cell and the cell shrivels up
What is the name of the enzyme which unzips DNA double helix?
Helicase
What is the probability of producing a tall pea plant from a genetic cross between two hybrid tall pea plants?
50% (two in four)
What is the name of the tissue that stores carbohydrates in the stem and chloroplasts in the leaves.
Ground tissue
This PI wrote a paper about a novel regulator of asymmetric cell division.
Dr. Dong! Her paper about BASL controlling asymmetric cell division in Arabidopsis was published in 2009.
What is the name of a cell that uses a flagella to motor itself around?
A bacterium
What is the name of the cell cycle phase in which replication occurs?
S (synthesis)
This copies the coded message from the DNA and carries it into the cytoplasm.
messenger RNA
What is the name of the hormone that causes a plant to bend toward the light.
An auxin
This PI spent her post doc studying cell contact-mediated polarity...
Dr. Wehman
Louis Pasteur disproved spontaneous generation with his broth experiment, thereby proving this axiom of cell theory.
All cells come from existing cells
What is the name of the process of making two copies of DNA that each contained one of the original strands and one new strand?
Semiconservative replication
What was Gregor Mendel's other part time job in addition to studying pea plants?
He was a priest!
What is the name of soft veins that transport sugar?
Phloem