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Biotechnology Review AP® Biology Biotech Topic Overview
Now, after that, we're gonna give this bacteria a little time to grow and reproduce so that we can see actually on plates whether or not it actually took up that gene successfully and was able to pass it on as it replicated and divided.
Biotechnology Review AP® Biology Biotech Topic Overview
A lot of times we'll do this by adding a resistance gene.
Biotechnology Review AP® Biology Biotech Topic Overview
So, for example, ampicillin is an antibiotic that kills off bacteria, so if the bacteria doesn't have a gene of resistance in it already, it will not grow or it will die on the plate.
Biotechnology Review AP® Biology Biotech Topic Overview
So you might see a chart like this.
Biotechnology Review AP® Biology Biotech Topic Overview
Charts like these are very common when we talk about experiments with transformation, but the idea is that we'll set up several different plates, and with one set of bacteria, our control, we won't add the ampicillin-resistant gene.
Biotechnology Review AP® Biology Biotech Topic Overview
In another set of bacteria, we will transform and we will add an ampicillin-resistant gene to it.
Biotechnology Review AP® Biology Biotech Topic Overview
Then we'll wait for the bacteria to grow and see what happens.
Biotechnology Review AP® Biology Biotech Topic Overview
On some of these plates, we've added ampicillin, the antibiotic that kills bacteria.
Biotechnology Review AP® Biology Biotech Topic Overview
On some of these plates, we haven't added any ampicillin.
Biotechnology Review AP® Biology Biotech Topic Overview
So this normal bacteria that we haven't changed should grow on the plate with no ampicillin because nothing's killing it, and it shouldn't grow on the plate that does have ampicillin.
Biotechnology Review AP® Biology Biotech Topic Overview
And so this shaded-in color here just means there's a bacterial lawn, which just means bacterial growth that covers the entire plate.
Biotechnology Review AP® Biology Biotech Topic Overview
Now let's look at the genes that we did the transformation on.
Biotechnology Review AP® Biology Biotech Topic Overview
For our bacteria that we actually added the new ampicillin-resistant gene to, on the plate with no ampicillin, we should still see a lot of growth.
Biotechnology Review AP® Biology Biotech Topic Overview
On the plate with ampicillin, we're gonna see growth too.
Biotechnology Review AP® Biology Biotech Topic Overview
It may not be as much as the plates without ampicillin because not all of the bacteria successfully transformed, but the ones that did are gonna be the ones that grow and show up on our plates.
Biotechnology Review AP® Biology Biotech Topic Overview
So here, even though we have the bacteria-killing drug, if the bacteria successfully took up this ampicillin-resistant gene, it should be able to grow here on this plate, and that's what we see.
Biotechnology Review AP® Biology Biotech Topic Overview
So there's a lot of different versions of charts like these whenever we're doing transformation experiments with bacteria, but just be able to recognize when we're adding in genes, you should be able to hypothesize what should show up where and justify why we have growth on certain plates like these.
Biotechnology Review AP® Biology Biotech Topic Overview
I hope this has given you a good overview of some of the biotechnology techniques that are used and referred to in AP biology.
Biotechnology Review AP® Biology Biotech Topic Overview
Thanks so much for watching and I'll see you later.
Photosynthesis Sketch Notes for AP Bio - Simple
Hey everyone, in this video I'm going to go over what you need to know about photosynthesis for AP biology by drawing my notes.
Photosynthesis Sketch Notes for AP Bio - Simple
Feel free to draw along or also I'll post the final version of this drawn page in the description of this video if you'd like to use that instead.
Photosynthesis Sketch Notes for AP Bio - Simple
I apologize in advance for my messy handwriting, but let's get started.
Photosynthesis Sketch Notes for AP Bio - Simple
Today we're focusing on photosynthesis in eukaryotic organisms.
Photosynthesis Sketch Notes for AP Bio - Simple
Remember, photosynthesis is a series of coordinated reaction pathways that capture free energy from the sun to yield ADP and NADPH, which are going to power the production of organic molecules, especially glucose.
Photosynthesis Sketch Notes for AP Bio - Simple
Let's start with the sun because the sun is the ultimate source of energy for all life on earth.
Photosynthesis Sketch Notes for AP Bio - Simple
Now the location of photosynthesis is inside the chloroplast and there are several specific structures within the chloroplast that we're going to highlight today.
Photosynthesis Sketch Notes for AP Bio - Simple
So let's start by drawing our chloroplast, which is a membrane-bound organelle.
Photosynthesis Sketch Notes for AP Bio - Simple
Within our chloroplast we have this area called the stroma, and this is where the dark reactions or light independent reactions are going to take place.
Photosynthesis Sketch Notes for AP Bio - Simple
We also have the thylakoid, which you might see drawn as stacks like this.
Photosynthesis Sketch Notes for AP Bio - Simple
These also have a membrane.
Photosynthesis Sketch Notes for AP Bio - Simple
Now our light dependent reactions are going to happen within the thylakoid.
Photosynthesis Sketch Notes for AP Bio - Simple
Our dark or our carbon fixation reactions are going to happen within the stroma.
Photosynthesis Sketch Notes for AP Bio - Simple
So now during the light
AP Biology Chapter 18 Genomes and Their Evolution
Hello APBio, welcome to our video lecture for Chapter 18, Genomes and Their Evolution.
AP Biology Chapter 18 Genomes and Their Evolution
For this chapter, I've picked a picture of some chimpanzees.
AP Biology Chapter 18 Genomes and Their Evolution
I love this picture.
AP Biology Chapter 18 Genomes and Their Evolution
Looks like that fell as reaching out to shake your hand, right?
AP Biology Chapter 18 Genomes and Their Evolution
So this chapter is kind of a fun chapter.
AP Biology Chapter 18 Genomes and Their Evolution
There isn't a whole lot of detailed stuff to memorize, but there are some concepts in this chapter that are just very, very fascinating.
AP Biology Chapter 18 Genomes and Their Evolution
And one of them is the idea that you and a chimp are about 99 or so percent the exact same DNA.
AP Biology Chapter 18 Genomes and Their Evolution
So what is it about genomes that can make you, you, a homo sapiens and a chimp very, very different in phenotype, but still about 99% the exact same DNA?
AP Biology Chapter 18 Genomes and Their Evolution
We're going to end with a couple words on evolution.
AP Biology Chapter 18 Genomes and Their Evolution
We haven't done evolution in class yet, but we're sort of, we're going to get there in Chapter 19.
AP Biology Chapter 18 Genomes and Their Evolution
So just an overview, so due to how quickly we can sequence DNA, we have complete genome sequences for numerous species from a chimp to you to E. coli to a corn to a fruit fly.
AP Biology Chapter 18 Genomes and Their Evolution
And we can use computers to compare genomes to see what similarities and what differences they have.
AP Biology Chapter 18 Genomes and Their Evolution
What you really need to do this is super fast DNA sequencing, which we have in very, very powerful supercomputers that can compare sequences quickly.
AP Biology Chapter 18 Genomes and Their Evolution
So genomics, so the study of comparing genes is genomics.
AP Biology Chapter 18 Genomes and Their Evolution
The second word bioinformatics, this is an important word.
AP Biology Chapter 18 Genomes and Their Evolution
So I'm not sure we've done this lab in class, John.
AP Biology Chapter 18 Genomes and Their Evolution
If we've done the BLAST lab where we use the BLAST tool to search a DNA sequence, this will sound familiar.
AP Biology Chapter 18 Genomes and Their Evolution
If we haven't, we're going to do it.
AP Biology Chapter 18 Genomes and Their Evolution
So bioinformatics is the idea where you use a computer and you put DNA or protein sequences into the computer and it searches a massive database to see what kind of matches that come up.
AP Biology Chapter 18 Genomes and Their Evolution
In the late 20th century, so the 90s and I guess early 21st century, the Human Genome Project was a worldwide aim to basically sequence the 3 billion DNA base pairs for humans.
AP Biology Chapter 18 Genomes and Their Evolution
It took over a decade to do it and the way that you did it, and this isn't important that you know this, but basically you would take a chromosome and break it into pieces and sequence the pieces and then find overlaps using a computer and the overlaps, like pair them up like a big puzzle to get the entire chromosome.
AP Biology Chapter 18 Genomes and Their Evolution
You don't sequence the entire chromosome at once.
AP Biology Chapter 18 Genomes and Their Evolution
You sequence pieces of it and then put them together like a puzzle.
AP Biology Chapter 18 Genomes and Their Evolution
Again, it took over a decade to do this.
AP Biology Chapter 18 Genomes and Their Evolution
Now you can sequence a genome in a couple days, if not faster.
AP Biology Chapter 18 Genomes and Their Evolution
The word metagenomics, this is just the idea.
AP Biology Chapter 18 Genomes and Their Evolution
So say that I want to study all the types of bacteria and the hot springs of Old Faithful, identifying all the bacteria with a microscope.
AP Biology Chapter 18 Genomes and Their Evolution
I don't want to do that.
AP Biology Chapter 18 Genomes and Their Evolution
This is the idea that you take a sample from the environment and you sequence all the DNA in that sample and use that to identify what species are there and what's interacting.
AP Biology Chapter 18 Genomes and Their Evolution
Obviously, this only works if you can sequence DNA fast and you have a big database to compare DNA sequences to.
AP Biology Chapter 18 Genomes and Their Evolution
I keep mentioning these databases.
AP Biology Chapter 18 Genomes and Their Evolution
So there's a bunch throughout the world.
AP Biology Chapter 18 Genomes and Their Evolution
The NCBI, the National Center for Biotechnology, information is one that we use in the United States.
AP Biology Chapter 18 Genomes and Their Evolution
Europe has one.
AP Biology Chapter 18 Genomes and Their Evolution
Japan has one.
AP Biology Chapter 18 Genomes and Their Evolution
China has one.
AP Biology Chapter 18 Genomes and Their Evolution
These are databases where you can...
AP Biology Chapter 18 Genomes and Their Evolution
It's almost like a big Google search, but it's a DNA sequences.
AP Biology Chapter 18 Genomes and Their Evolution
Not only can you search for a specific sequence, but you can also upload new data to it.
AP Biology Chapter 18 Genomes and Their Evolution
GenBank, which is the NCBI sequence, when this slide was written, which is this is outdated as of now, but every 18 months, it doubled the number of sequences in its database.
AP Biology Chapter 18 Genomes and Their Evolution
To say that I'm a scientist working with a certain kind of gene, I can type in the A's, T's, G's, and C's of that gene and search it and it will tell me where that matches in humans and frogs and mice and in numerous different organisms.
AP Biology Chapter 18 Genomes and Their Evolution
This is a very powerful tool, obviously.
AP Biology Chapter 18 Genomes and Their Evolution
This just shows...
AP Biology Chapter 18 Genomes and Their Evolution
Excuse me.
AP Biology Chapter 18 Genomes and Their Evolution
Here they put in a query, a sequence.
AP Biology Chapter 18 Genomes and Their Evolution
Now, this obviously is not a DNA sequence because look at the letters.
AP Biology Chapter 18 Genomes and Their Evolution
This is a protein sequence.
AP Biology Chapter 18 Genomes and Their Evolution
Each letter represents an amino acid.
AP Biology Chapter 18 Genomes and Their Evolution
You can do this with proteins.
AP Biology Chapter 18 Genomes and Their Evolution
I put in this sequence and it gives me all the matches.
AP Biology Chapter 18 Genomes and Their Evolution
There's a match in cows, a match in mustard plants, in corn, in humans, in nematodes, in yeast.
AP Biology Chapter 18 Genomes and Their Evolution
It highlights the sections of the gene that are the same.
AP Biology Chapter 18 Genomes and Their Evolution
This is giving a 3D picture of the protein.
AP Biology Chapter 18 Genomes and Their Evolution
This highlighted area is the area of overlap.
AP Biology Chapter 18 Genomes and Their Evolution
This protein is found in way different organisms and the protein might do different things in different organisms, but it has this domain right here that's the same.
AP Biology Chapter 18 Genomes and Their Evolution
That gives you some evolutionary hints as to where this protein came from.
AP Biology Chapter 18 Genomes and Their Evolution
Notice the sequences are pretty far apart where they overlap, but because proteins can fold back on themselves, this shouldn't be that surprising.
AP Biology Chapter 18 Genomes and Their Evolution
Systems biology is the idea...
AP Biology Chapter 18 Genomes and Their Evolution
I'm going to just give you an example.
AP Biology Chapter 18 Genomes and Their Evolution
Many different types of cancers and ways that a cell can become cancerous, but trying to identify the most common mutations that lead to cancer.
AP Biology Chapter 18 Genomes and Their Evolution
Proteomics is the same thing, but instead of using DNA, you use proteins.
AP Biology Chapter 18 Genomes and Their Evolution
You use the amino acid sequence instead of the DNA sequence.
AP Biology Chapter 18 Genomes and Their Evolution
You can use these silicon and glass chips.
AP Biology Chapter 18 Genomes and Their Evolution
This is what one looks like.
AP Biology Chapter 18 Genomes and Their Evolution
What we discussed in a previous chapter where you can see what genes are present in a whole system by using a computer chip like this.
AP Biology Chapter 18 Genomes and Their Evolution
You don't really need to know much about that.
AP Biology Chapter 18 Genomes and Their Evolution
This is a fascinating slide.