What percentage of genes do humans share with bananas? |
50% |
What is the message is that has gotten passed from the first form of life? |
The secret to life |
Describe how the DNA looked in the test tube. |
A piece of a wet cotton string. |
Humans have only twice as many genes as a |
fruit fly |
What are the four bases in DNA? |
Adenine, thymine, guanine, cytosine |
Every baby born is 99.9% genetically identical to |
every other baby |
How many years did it take to find one marker for breast cancer? |
15 years |
What was the diagnosis of Hayden and what does the disorder do? |
Hayden’s disorder was tay-sach and caused him to not develop regularly. It caused him to not be able to walk, talk, see, and for him to have seizures. |
What change in the DNA causes Tay-Sach’s? |
The change of one letter in genetic code |
How long did the government originally think it would take to complete the Human Genome Project? |
15 years |
What company did Venter create? |
Venter created Celera Genomics, The Institute for Genomic Research. |
Where did Celera get some of their information on the human genome? |
A website |
Where did the DNA that the government was using come from? |
5 volunteers |
What was the celebration for? |
Finding a billion base pairs of DNA |
Identify the gene that has been patented. |
Insulin |
What did Riley test positive for? What is characteristic about this disease? |
Riley tested positive for cystic fibrosis. It results in less proteins in his DNA, and affects his lungs and his proteins are misshaped because 3 base letters are missing. |
What is the protein normally supposed to do? What happens to this protein in cystic fibrosis? |
Protein normally are supposed to be three dimensional and have a curled and twisted shape. proteins in cystic fibrosis are misshapen and are missing genes. |
How many genes do humans have? |
30,000 |
Why would it be better to test for a gene within a family line? |
It would be better to test for a gene within a family line because they have similar genes to the ones being tested. |
Why is Iceland a good place to study the location of genes in the DNA? |
Because the small population and most of them are closely related to vikings and each other. |
What gene did they use to create glowing mice? |
They used the genes from a firefly to create glowing mice. |
Which organization finally finished sequencing the human genome first? |
Celera and government labs finished sequencing the human genome at the same time. |
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