Genetic Engineering & Synthetic Biology
What animal was the first mammal to be cloned?
What is a sheep?
What does DNA stand for?
What is deoxyribonucleic acid?
What two factors mainly contribute to ideal wildfire conditions?
What are increased global temperature and decreased relative humidity?
What is a circular unit of DNA that replicates independently of the chromosome?
What is a plasmid?
What bacteria are we using in our project?
What is P.putida?
What is the central dogma of biology?
What is DNA to RNA to Protein?
What are the four nucleobases used in DNA?
What are G, A, T, C? (or guanine, adenine, thymine, and cytosine)
According to FireSmart protocol, which out of the three zones within the Home Ignition Zone should you first reduce risk of ignition?
What is the immediate zone?
What does doing a miniprep achieve?
What is isolating plasmid DNA from cells?
What type of surfactant are we trying to produce?
What are rhamnolipids?
What are three uses of synthetic biology in the real world?
Manufacturing (biofuels)
Medicine (Swine Flu Vaccines)
Environmental Remediation (clean up oil spills)
Agriculture (disease resistant plants)
What does DNA store and transmit?
What is information/ hereditary information?
What product prevents or slows the ignition of a fire?
What is a retardant?
What process is used to run an agarose gel and what is used to visualize the gel?
What is gel electrophoresis and UV light?
How many sub teams do we have on the UAlberta iGEM team?(100 bonus points if any team can name all of them)
What is 6 sub teams? (Wet Lab, Dry Lab, Wiki, Human Practices, Media, Ad/Fi)
Why are we able to recombine genetic material from different organisms and produce genetically modified organisms?
Because the basic chemical structure of genetic material in ALL organisms is the same.
What type of bond holds DNA strands together?
What is an H-bond/hydrogen bond?
What are three out of the five types of responses to wildfires that we discussed?(200 bonus points to any team that can explain what each of their roles are)
What are Watch Towers, Forest Rangers and Ground Team, Incident Camps, Helicopters, and Airtankers?
What process is needed to produce a gene insert that can be put into a plasmid?
What is a restriction digestion?
How does our project aim to achieve sustainability and remediation?(two answers needed, one for sustainability, and one for remediation)
What is using waste cooking oil to be sustainable? And what is adding plant growth hormone to achieve remediation?