| A | B |
|---|
| recombinanat DNA | combined DNA with one organism to the DNA of another oranism |
| genome | all the DNA in a haploid number of chromosomes |
| NIH | national institute of health |
| James Watson | first head of the human genome project |
| Paul Berg | first to make recombinant DNA |
| Maxam Gilbert and Sanger | successfully sequenced DNA |
| Craig Vinter | started a private company spurred the US govt to put more effort into human genome project |
| restriction enzyme | bacterial enzymes that cut up (viral) DNA |
| DNA ligase | enzyme that seals nicks in recombined DNA |
| plasmid | small circular strand of bacterial DNA that codes for a few genes |
| cloning vector | a plasmid with foreign DNA that is put into another organism |
| reverse transcriptase | viral enxyme that used mRNA as a template to make cDNA |
| cDNA | created by a strand of mRNA to make complementary DNA |
