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Question #1

In this lab you will be using Synechococcus elongatus, a type of _____.

A. Archaea

B. cyanobacterium

C. plant

D. protist

Question #2

In the strains you will be working with, a gene has been _____.

A. added

B. deleted

C. altered by one base pair

D. altered by one domain

Question #3

All of the experimental strains you will be using have been given genes for ______.

A. ampicillin resistance

B. high salt tolerance

C. green fluorescent protein

D. kanamycin resistance

Question #4

You will use a ______ strain as a control for your experiment.

A. radioactive mutant

B. wild-type (WT)

C. deletion mutant

D. special deletion

Question #5

To set up cultures for your experiment, you will need to find the ____ of your starting cultures.

A. optical density (OD)

B. thickness

C. color

D. temperature