Week 04

I would rather take the Week 05 (entomophagy) quiz:

• Next Tuesday (Feb. 21)

• A week from Tuesday (Feb. 28)

Elizabeth Ann is a successful clone born in 2020. What species is she?

What is Cas9?

• An enzyme

• A protein

• An amino acid

• An enzyme and a protein

Where is CRISPR naturally found?

• Soils

• Jellyfish and coral

• Plant root systems

• Bacteria and Archaea

What does CRISPR stand for?

• Clustered Regularly Inserted Short Palindromic Repeats

• Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats

• Clustered Regularly Interrupted Short Palindromic Repeats

• Clustered Regularly Intermittent Short Palindromic Repeats

What extinct species' DNA did scientists extract in hopes of restoring the Asian elephant population?

• Baiji dolphin

• Woolly mammoth

• Western black rhinoceros

• American mastodon