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What is N2
The strain name of wild-type C. elegans
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What is Clustered, regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats
What does CRISPR stand for?
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Who is Melynda
This European history minor had all their luggage stolen in Italy
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Who is
John Roberts, Samuel Alito, Neil Gorsuch, Clarence Thomas, Brett Kavanaugh, Sonia Sotomayor, Elena Kagan, Stephen Breyer, Amy Coney Barrett
Name 5 of the 9 US Supreme Court Justices
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Who is Martin Chalfie
This scientist is a professor at an Ivy League NYC university
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What is 3 weeks
The average lifespan of a C. elegans worm
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What is at least 5
How many codons should you mutate in a gRNA mutation?
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Who is Amaka
She plans to attend dental school and also mentors with the You Can Too program
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Who is Henry Ford
Who popularized the 40-hour work week?
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Who is Jennifer Doudna
This scientist is a professor at Cal-Berkeley
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What is 300
The number of fertilized eggs a C. elegans hermaphrodite can produce
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What is Sequence-specific primers, Taq DNA polymerase, dNTPs, buffer, and DNA template
What are the components needed for a PCR reaction?
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Who is Carrie
She is originally from Canada and works for The Daily Texan
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What is Huron, Erie, Superior, Ontario, Michigan
Name the 5 Great Lakes
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Who is Sydney Brenner
This scientist was awarded a Nobel prize along with two other scientists that were once his proteges!
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What is 80%
20%, 40%, 60%, or 80%?
The percentage of animals on earth that are nematodes. |
What is If the ATG insertion site is within 10 bp from PAM
A mutation is not needed within the repair template if…
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Who is Persephone
This mentor competes on the Texas Women’s Rugby Sports Club
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What is Minari, Nomadland, Mank, Sound of Metal, Trial of Chicago 7, Judas and the Black Messiah, Promising Young Woman, The Father
Name 4 of the 8 2021 Oscar Best Picture Nominees
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Who is Sydney Brenner
The middle name of this scientist is Lee
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What is 1998
The sequencing of the C. elegans genome is completed and Monica Lewinsky becomes famous this year
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What is About 50%
When designing primers, you generally want your primers to have a GC content of…
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Who is Christine
She ate an olive for the first time in her life last October
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What is Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Macedonia, Montenegro, Serbia, Kosovo and Slovenia
Name 4 countries that comprised the former Yugoslavia
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Who is Rosalind Franklin
This scientist earned a Ph.D. from Cambridge University at just 25 years old
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