Biotech Vocab 2

enzyme that recognizes a certain DNA sequence and cuts the DNA strand

• restriction enzyme

• DNA polymerase

• cyborg

• plasmid

process that uses heat cycles and DNA polymerase to make many copies of a DNA strand

• GMO

• SNP

• GWAS

• PCR

technology derived from the bacterial defense system and used for precision editing of DNA

• CRISPR

• scissors

• gel electrophoresis

• sequencing

non-coding DNA that consists of a core sequence and a varied number of repeats--used in DNA fingerprinting

• Cas9

• SNP

• VNTR

• gene

matching a medical treatment precisely to a person's genome

• genetic engineering

• gene mapping

• synthetic biology

• personalized medicine

creating a DNA sequence from scratch that will be used to build a living thing

• GWAS

• personalized medicine

• synthetic biology

• Human Genome Project

seaweed-based gel that DNA fragments travel through during electrophoresis

• agarose

• plasmid

• gRNA

• Cas9

DNA sequence that is highly variable within a species or breed and can be used to map traits to genes

• GWAS

• SNP

• gRNA

• VNTR

This image shows

• gel electrophoresis

• gene mapping

• DNA sequencing

• synthetic biology

This picture shows

• genetic engineering with a plasmid

• CRISPR

• DNA fingerprint

• synthetic biology