lecture 4 Flashcards
- How can transgenic plants be created (we discussed four different ways in class)?
Electroporation
Physical Bombardment
Chemical Treatment
Bacterial Transfer (most used one)
Know just one
- Know this diagram and we able to describe what is going on within the different steps of this process.
ON THE DOC
- Why do humans create transgenic plants (i.e. how are they useful)?
Multiple reasons
Can increase resistance to disease
Increase resistance to the front
Make it so provides affect it (it just plant s around it)
Make it withstand high water intake or droughts
Add high nutrient loads (vitamins, etc.)
- How can recombinant DNA help cure some diseases?
Create proteins you have never created before, important proteins can be reproduced (trying to cure diabetes with this)
- How can we create needed human proteins with recombinant DNA?
Don’t need to know all of the steps just know that if you use recombinant dna then you can go and take the genes from one species and put it in another
- How can recombinant DNA help cure some diseases (know the examples discussed in class)?
trying to cure diabetes with this
- How can we create missing proteins within the human body with recombinant DNA (know the examples discussed in class)?
- There is growing evidence that stem cell therapy has the potential to treat a variety of chronic diseases. However, which statement describes one of the current problems with using this technology?
Four main problems with this technology
It can take ten years minimum even to get one treatment of stem cells approved can be over 1 billion dollars
Patient recruitment is challenging. Can’t find people that want to
Regulatory agencies have very extensive oversight, which can delay everything getting done
Public perception is very biased
65.____________are fuels derived from biomass made from recently fixed carbon sources, as opposed to fuels derived from fossil fuels. Fill in the blank.
Biofuels
- What part of the algae are you using to create biofuels?
Lipids (fats)
- Why is genetically engineered microalgae better than using regularly grown algae for biofuel production?
Microalgae possibilities: microalgae is designed to use very little space and produce a less expense
- How can algae biofuel production lead to cogeneration systems being implemented (i.e. why are they are green energy source monetarily and figuratively)?
- What is the one main problem, currently, with trying to produce biofuels?
The cost
- The degradation or metabolism of hydrocarbons pollutants by microorganisms is called __________. Fill in the blank.
Nutrient availability
- What affects the degradation rates of hydrocarbons by microorganisms?
gigantic amount of variables because your releasing a living thing into an environment different variables
