Circadian Rhythm Misc.
How long it takes a human to adjust to a different time-zone.
What is 1 -2 hours a day?
The plant that served as Gendron's primary platform for study in his lab.
What is Arabidopsis?
BONUS (no points): What is Arabidopsis' specific name?
Describe the development of Arabidopsis when exposed only to short days during winters.
What is growing close to the ground, very leafy, until it shoots a flower out before dying?
The category of plants that thrive during long-days
What are Long-day plants?
How long it takes a plant to adjust to a different time zone.
What is 4 hours a day?
Gene that drives production of a bioluminescent enzyme, used to observe activation of a gene in a non-destructive way.
What is Luciferase?
The enzyme that converts glucose into Myo-Inositol
What is MIPS1?
By manipulating the amount of light we can change the plant's _____.
What is Circadian Rhythm?
A condition that affects humans periodically as days grow shorter each winter
The benefits of Luciferase imaging (name any one of three).
What are resolution, high throughput, and non-destructivity?
Enzyme that aids plants in cell division, cell expansion, and defense against pathogens.
What is Myo-Inositol?
Three main components of plant growth can be controlled in the lab, light, temperature and _____.
What is Humidity?
FILL IN THE BLANK: _____ _____ in plants is essential for food security.
Biological Timekeeping
Using Luciferase imaging, Gendron charted/tracked the (______,______ and ______) of Circadian Rhythm
What are Period, Phase and Amplitude?
The exact number of genes in Arabidopsis and the exact number that are photoperiodic.
What are 24,783 and 8,302?
Gendron's research shows that plants do not grow just depending on the time and duration of light but instead the duration of ____ light.
Four aspects of our lives -- mentioned in the lecture -- that circadian rhythms control.
What are Metabolism, Sleep, Intelligence, and Athleticism?
How luciferase imaging was utilized in Gendron's lab.
What is the creation of the outward presentation of PP2-A13 activation and the comparison of its activity in long days vs. short days?
The second time MIPS1 expresses itself during a long day.
What is ZT16?
Local New Haven plant that can grow in short days, unlike most other plants
What is Plantago Lanceolora?