1: Biotech Basics and Central Dogma
Students explore the history of biotechnology, model organisms, bacteriophage, cell culture, subviral agents, the central dogma, and endosymbiotic theory.
Matching Industries to Descriptions
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Match each of the following industries with their corresponding descriptions.
Note: Each choice will be used exactly once.
| Your Choice | Prompt | |
|---|---|---|
| 1. Engineering | ||
| 2. Pharmaceuticals | ||
| 3. Medical Devices | ||
| 4. Biotechnology |
Drag one of the choices below:
- A. designing a watch to measure blood pressure
- B. crossing two varieties of apples to create a new variety
- C. designing a bicycle for humans to generate energy
- D. using a novel drug to fight cancer
Match Biotechnology Industries
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Match each of the following biotechnology adjacent industries with their corresponding project descriptions.
Note: Each choice will be used exactly once.
| Your Choice | Prompt | |
|---|---|---|
| 1. Bio-engineering/Medical Devices | ||
| 2. Traditional Biotechnology | ||
| 3. Pharmaceuticals/Drug Manufacturing | ||
| 4. Supplemental Industry/Traditional Remedies | ||
| 5. Modern Biotechnology |
Drag one of the choices below:
- A. Cultivating cannabis plants to create extracts for headache relief and other medicinal purposes.
- B. Developing a drug to regulate gut microbiota to treat conditions such as irritable bowel syndrome or inflammatory bowel disease.
- C. Genetically enhancing a plastic-degrading fungus isolated from insect larvae to improve its efficiency in breaking down HDPE microplastics and optimizing its plastic-degrading pathways using synthetic biology tools.
- D. Extracting enzymes from cells to purify water, addressing clean water access in underdeveloped regions.
- E. Developing smart contact lenses that measure blood sugar levels from tears using electrophoretic sensors.
Matching Culture Enrichment Methods
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Match each of the following methods of culture enrichment with their corresponding descriptions.
Note: Each choice will be used exactly once.
| Your Choice | Prompt | |
|---|---|---|
| 1. stable isotope probing (SIP) | ||
| 2. BrdU | ||
| 3. suppressive subtraction hybridization (SSH) | ||
| 4. RNA stable isotope probing (RNA-SIP) |
Drag one of the choices below:
- A. relies on the consuption of a substrate that is highly enriched by an isotope, such as 13C
- B. halogenated nucleotides that can be incorporated into newly synthesized DNA and isolated
- C. adding heavy isotopes into SSU ribosomal RNA to distinguish metabolically active organisms
- D. compares microorganisms present in two different samples by removing identical DNA
Nobel Prize Topics
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Industries Using Enzymes
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Which one of the following industries correspond to the description 'crossing two varieties of apples to create a new variety'.
Biotechnology Industry Identification
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Which one of the following biotechnology adjacent industries correspond to the project description 'Using novel bacteria to ferment milk into yogurt for probiotic benefits.'.
Isotope Labeling in Culture Enrichment
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Which one of the following methods of culture enrichment correspond to the description 'substrate is enriched with a heavy isotopes to be consumed by the organisms to be studied'.