Wednesday, March 10, 2010

Bio 3 Kawashima Clearance Requirement

Please see the following list for your choice of clearance requirement.
Email me at str2kawashima@gmail.com to apply for a topic. A maximum of 2 people may register for each number.

  1. Gene cloning
  2. Dideoxy chain termination/Sanger method for nucleotide sequencing
  3. Shotgun genome sequencing
  4. Polymerase chain reaction
  5. Restriction fragment length polymorphism
  6. Southern blot
  7. Replication
  8. Telomeres and telomerases
  9. Transcription
  10. Translation
  11. Operon and negative feedback loop
  12. Gene expression
  13. Restriction enzyme digestion
  14. Griffith experiment
  15. Hershey and Chase experiment
  16. Messelson and Stahl experiment
  17. Avery, MacLeod and McCarty experiment
  18. Human Genome Project
  19. Plant genetic engineering methods (choose one)
    - Agrobacterium
    - Gene gun
    - Protoplast chemical transformation
  20. Animal genetic engineering methods (choose one)
    - Viral transfection
    - Liposmes and lipid carriers
    - Others

Thursday, February 25, 2010

DNA Technology and Tools Animations

Transcription and Translation


Translation


Agarose Gel Electrophoresis


Polymerase Chain Reaction


Human Genome Project


Chain termination method for nucleotide sequencing (Sanger Method)


Gene Cloning and Recombinant DNA


DNA detection by Southern Blot


cDNA


Sources:
Sadava, et al., Life: The Science of Biology, Eighth Edition, Sinauer Associates

Alberts, et al., Molecular Biology of the Cell, Fifth Edition, Garland Science Publishing

Prescott, et al., Microbiology, Sixth Edition, McGraw-Hill Higher Education

Wednesday, February 17, 2010

DNA Fingerprinting Activity

Please read the "Instructions" document first. Restriction enzyme choice is according to your Bio groupings -
BamH1 (Salamat, San Juan, Malubag, Lasco, Panton, Nadura)
Pst1 (Pangilinan, Tobillo, Ylanan, Garcia, Tamayo, Tarcelo)
Sma1(Valdez, Gallardo, Lopez, Manalo, Rahayel, Rodelas)
Xma1 (Estanislao, Gomez, Alegre, Santos, Galido, Co)
BsrF1 (Lim, Asis, Estrada, Rodriguez, Evangelista, Alba)

INDIVIDUAL. Due on Bio perio day :>

Activity DNA Fingerprinting Instructions

Activity DNA Fingerprinting Restriction Enzymes

100 bp ladder

Wednesday, January 13, 2010