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Genome Editing with CRISPR
Instructions:
Use the website below to answer the following questions;
https://www.broadinstitute.org/what-broad/areas-focus/project-spotlight/crispr
Watch the YouTube video Genome Editing with CRISPR-Cas9.
Click on the link to the right of the screen “Questions and Answers about CRISPR” and answer the following questions.
1. What is “CRISPR”?
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2. Where do CRISPRs come from?
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3. How does the system work?
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4. How does CRISPR-Cas9 compare to other genome editing tools?
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5. Read the timeline (link to the right) and highlight the important discoveries that ultimately led up to its ongoing development into a genome editing tool under the following headings.
Discovery of CRISPR and its function
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Discovery of Cas9 and PAM
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Hypothetical scheme of adaptive immunity
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Experimental demonstration of adaptive immunity
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Spacer sequences are transcribed into guide RNAs
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CRISPR acts on DNA targets
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Cas9 cleaves target DNA
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Discovery of tracrRNA for Cas9 system
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CRISPR systems can function heterologously in other species
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Biochemical characterization of Cas9-mediated cleavage
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CRISPR-Cas9 harnessed for genome editing
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6. Use the picture to the right to answer the following questions.
a. What is a phage?
b. What is the phage doing?
c. Describe the mechanism for removing the invade DNA.