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===Preliminary Assessment Q&A=== | ===<font color="green">Key Concepts from Day 1</font>=== | ||
#Develop a crisp answer to the question "What is Biological Engineering?" (see below). | |||
#Understand how DNA synthesis lets you "write" DNA. | |||
#Understand how DNA sequencing and synthesis technologies complement one another, allowing interconversion between genetic material (DNA) and genetic information (...ATCG...). | |||
#Recognize the challenge of going from (A) imagining an engineered biological system that you might want (for example, a genetic oscillator or a self-growing tree house) to (B) the actual DNA sequence that programs a living system to produce your imaginable system. | |||
===<font color="green">Preliminary Assessment Q&A</font>=== | |||
*'''What is Biological Engineering?''' | *'''What is Biological Engineering?''' | ||
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**Decoupling and decomposition, abstraction, standardization, working in a group, taking a deep breath, and many more. | **Decoupling and decomposition, abstraction, standardization, working in a group, taking a deep breath, and many more. | ||
*'''Write down, at whatever level of resolution you most prefer, the genetic program that would make a bacterium blink over time - like a little microscopic lighthouse:''' | *'''Write down, at whatever level of resolution you most prefer, the genetic program that would make a bacterium blink over time - like a little microscopic lighthouse:''' | ||
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Latest revision as of 19:01, 8 February 2006
Key Concepts from Day 1
- Develop a crisp answer to the question "What is Biological Engineering?" (see below).
- Understand how DNA synthesis lets you "write" DNA.
- Understand how DNA sequencing and synthesis technologies complement one another, allowing interconversion between genetic material (DNA) and genetic information (...ATCG...).
- Recognize the challenge of going from (A) imagining an engineered biological system that you might want (for example, a genetic oscillator or a self-growing tree house) to (B) the actual DNA sequence that programs a living system to produce your imaginable system.
Preliminary Assessment Q&A
- What is Biological Engineering?
- Biological Engineering is the characterization, analysis, and design of natural and synthetic biological systems for useful purposes.
- What does DNA do?
- DNA is the genetic material that encodes the information which defines some of the behavior of biological systems.
- What is DNA sequencing?
- DNA sequencing is a technology that allows physical genetic material to be "read out," producing a string of information (for example, ATCGTACA...).
- What is DNA synthesis?
- DNA synthesis is a technology that allows raw chemicals to be combined with information to produce physical genetic material.
- What are some tools or approaches that are useful for solving complex problems?
- Decoupling and decomposition, abstraction, standardization, working in a group, taking a deep breath, and many more.
- Write down, at whatever level of resolution you most prefer, the genetic program that would make a bacterium blink over time - like a little microscopic lighthouse:
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