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Question #1

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

A. cyanobacterium

B. Archaea

C. protist

D. plant

Question #2

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

A. altered by one domain

B. added

C. altered by one base pair

D. deleted

Question #3

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

A. high salt tolerance

B. ampicillin resistance

C. kanamycin resistance

D. green fluorescent protein

Question #4

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

A. special deletion

B. radioactive mutant

C. deletion mutant

D. wild-type (WT)

Question #5

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

A. temperature

B. optical density (OD)

C. color

D. thickness