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How many chromosomes do prokaryotes have?
What is 1.
The malaria parasite is only transmitted through the bite of mosquitos of this gender.
What is female.
SARS-CoV-2 uses this host receptor to invade host cells.
What is the ACE2 receptor.
Name the 3 basic shapes of bacteria.
What are Coccus, Bacillus, and Spirillum.
This strain of the malaria parasite is most prevalent in Africa.
What is Plasmodium falciparum.
Only viruses with a ________ genome can undergo antigenic shift.
What is segmented.
Methicillin resistant S. aureus (MRSA) is a gram _______ bacteria.
What is positive.
This strain of the malaria parasite is most prevalent in the Americas.
What is Plasmodium vivax.
Name the 3 most common viral capsid shapes.
What are icosahedral, Filamentous, and head-tail.
How many grams of agarose should be added to 100mL of TAE buffer to create a 2% agarose gel?
What is 2 grams.
A landmark malaria vaccination study exhibiting over 75% vaccine efficacy against Malaria was performed in this country.
What is Burkina Faso.
The causative agent of cholera is a gram ______ bacteria.
What is negative.
Malaria is almost entirely transmitted through the bite of this mosquito.
What is the Anopheles mosquito.
Name 3 viruses that are transmitted though the bite of an infected mosquito.
What are Zika, Dengue, Yellow Fever, Chikungunya, JEV, West nile...
This reagent containing DNA fragments of known sizes is used to determine the size of your experimental samples.
What is a ladder.
Researchers at UCSD engineered Aedes aegypti mosquitos to express antibodies against all 4 major strains of this pathogen as a gene drive.
What is dengue virus.
This component of the cell envelope helps retain purple staining during gram-stain procedure.
What is peptidoglycan.
Plasmodium falciparum has a life cycle consisting of these 3 stages.
What are the liver, blood, and sexual stages.
_______ have the largest RNA genome of any viral family.
What are coronaviruses.
Name the 4 primary components of a PCR reaction.
Template DNA, primers, dNTPs, and DNA polymerase.
Researchers at at Imperial College London crashed a population of Anopheles gambiae mosquitos with 100% efficacy by making a gene drive that renders female mosquitos unable to _______ or _________.
What is bite or lay eggs.