Quizzes

Question 1

Where should you discard cover glass and slide glass?

Answer 1

Sharp’s container

Question 2

Wild type features of D. melanogaster are?

Answer 2

Brick red eyes, tanned body, and straight wings.

Question 3

What is the role of instagene?

Answer 3

it sequesters Magnesium, which is used by DNase’s to degrade DNA.

Question 4

What is agarose gel electrophoresis?

Answer 4

The technology that migrates fragments through the gel from cathode to anode at speeds dependent on their size.

Question 5

What is the heat shock step of the bacterial transformation supposed to do?

Answer 5

Loosen/disrupt the plasma membrane

Question 6

Why do you run a PCR using primers specific for photosystem II (PSII) chloroplast gene?

Answer 6

We use it as a control for the PCR to locate plant sequences.

Question 7

Do larger or smaller DNA fragments run on agarose gel?

Answer 7

Smaller

Larger ones get trapped in pores…