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Impact of Genomics
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Cloning | Amplification of a a recombinant DNA vector within a host |
| Restriction | Enzymes isolated from prokaryotes that recognize and cleave specific target sequence in DNA |
| Palindromic | Property of most restriction sites; both strands have the same sequence in antiparallel orientation |
| Specificity | Property correlated with restriction site length; as length increases the number of cuts made in sample DNA decreases |
| Phosphatase | Enzyme used to prevent vector (or donor DNA) re-ligation |
| Klenow Polymerase | Enzyme used to generate blunt DNA end from cohesive ends |
| Gel Electrophoresis | Procedure that uses current to move molecules though a porous matrix |
| Hybridization Screen | Procedure used to identify gene of interest in a DNA library |
| Southern Blot | DNA is separated with electrophoresis, blotted, probed |
| Northern Blot | RNA is separated with electrophoresis, blotted, probed |
| Western Blot | Protein is separated with electrophoresis, blotted, probed |
| Northern | Blot used to determine in which tissue a gene is expressed or to detect splice variants |
| Southern | Blot used to determine which positive samples contain the desired segment of a gene of interest |
| Genomics | Study of genome function, regulation, and evolution at a systemic level |
| Bioinformatics | Study of the information content of genomes |
| Synteny | Regions of chromosomes conserved between species |
| Infection | Use of a lytic phage as the host for a recombinant vector |
| Transduction | Use of an inactivated phage to insert a recombinant vector into a bacterial host |
| Transformation | Use of heat shock to insert a recombinant vector into a bacterial host |
| Adaptor | In the production of cDNA, restriction site blunt-ligated to the 5' end of the (former) mRNA rendered in DNA |
| cDNA | dsDNA copy of processed mRNA |
| PCR | Use of thermo-cycles to amplify a segment of DNA; requires reverse complement primers |
| RFLP | PCR-based assays of variable number tandem repeats (micro-satellites) used in DNA fingerprinting |
| Shotgun Sequencing | Genome is digested, cloned, sequenced, then overlapped to produce contigs of progressive size |