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Synthetic Biology, Schmenthetic Biology
More Like Boggle Switch
Pro or Antiswitch?
pClone Fab Lab
iGRIM presentations
100
The application of engineering principles and mathematical modeling to the design and construction of biological parts, devices, and systems with applications in energy, medicine, and technology (also the name of the course).
What is synthetic biology?
100
A gene product that does not affect the experiment itself, but rather informs researchers about how the experiment is going (like GFP).
What is a reporter?
100
A nucleotide molecule that binds "sense" RNA.
What is antisense RNA?
100
The color of a colony of cells that all have pClone Red or pClone Blue.
What is green (due to GFP)?
100
The type of cancer that the (Anti-)Cancer group's iGEM team sought to attack.
What is breast cancer?
200
The general type of material that you can get from algae to power your car.
What is biofuel?
200
A light switch that turns on or off and stays on or off is an example of this type of switch.
What is a bistable (toggle) switch?
200
A nucleotide molecule that binds a ligand.
What is an aptamer?
200
The antibiotic used to make sure all the bacteria had a pClone plasmid in it.
What is ampicillin?
200
The liquid material created as a by-product of cheese production, and the potential source of energy presented by the Renewable Energy group.
What is whey?
300
Arabidopsis has been modified synthetically to alert us to the presence of what military device?
What are landmines?
300
The inducer that binds to LacI.
What is IPTG?
300
The theophylline-like molecule that is in coffee and chocolate.
What is caffeine?
300
The method of adding a promoter to a plasmid using alternating cutting with BsaI and ligating with DNA ligase.
What is golden gate assembly?
300
The organism that the Space Exploration group talked about, which was making resveratrol and antifreeze.
What is moss (or space moss)?
400
Artemisinin has been created using synthetic biology to solve this mosquito-borne illness.
What is malaria?
400
The repressor in the repressilator example that is not found in the toggle switch example.
What is cI?
400
The molecule that looks similar to theophylline that is excreted through the urine.
What is uric acid?
400
The type of restriction enzyme that has a separate recognition and cut site.
What is Type IIS?
400
The element that the Agriculture and GMOs group's iGEM team sought to remove from the soil.
What is cadmium?
500
The concept of having parts, devices, and systems that can be self-contained and engineered in any combination (like, for example, USB ports).
What is modularity?
500
The inducer that binds the TetR protein.
What is aTc?
500
The discovery of this process, using antisense RNA that "silences" mRNA, won the Nobel Prize.
What is RNAi?
500
The solution that you must keep cold and add to fresh cells when doing a transformation.
What is calcium chlorine?
500
The two species of bacteria mentioned in the (Therapeutic) Drugs group's iGEM project.
What are Staphylococcus aureus and Lactobacillus plantarum?