| Hint | Answer | % Correct |
|---|---|---|
| What does PCR stand for? | Polymerase Chain Reaction | 79%
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| Enzyme used to join together 2 complimentary sticky ends of DNA. | DNA Ligase | 64%
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| A way of using the weights of DNA strands to split them up, gel....... | Electrophoresis | 60%
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| An enzyme used to cut a piece of DNA in a specific place. | Restriction enzymes/endonucleases | 40%
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| What does the C in cDNA stand for? | Complementary | 32%
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| Sticky ends are the favourable type of end, what is the unfavourable one. | Blunt end | 28%
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| The study of the effect of environmental factors on gene expression (phenotype) | Epigenetics | 26%
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| A short single stranded piece of DNA with a label attatched to it, which is complimentary to a section of DNA under investigation. | DNA probe | 21%
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| Enzyme used by HIV to insert its viral RNA into eukaryotes DNA. | Reverse transcriptase | 19%
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| The process of a primer joinig to a piece of DNA. | Annealing | 17%
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| Sequencing method used to determine the DNA sequence of a streand of DNA. | Sanger | 15%
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| What is another term for increased methylation. | Hyper methylation | 9%
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| What is the name for the part of the gene that transcription factors bind to. | Promoter region | 9%
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| Fill in the blank '...... acetylation makes the DNA coil more preventing transcription.' | Decreased | 8%
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| Small overlapping strands of nucleotides used in the gene machine. | Oligonucleotides | 4%
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| The collection of chemical tags covering histones. | Epigenome | 2%
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