This technique’s efficiency is most commonly evaluated with TIDE analysis or with a program whose name is a portmanteau of this technique and “espresso.” Variants of this technique that use a comparatively small protein denoted “12a” are notable for generating overhangs. The H840A and D10A mutations of an enzyme used in this technique can disable that enzyme’s RuvC (“ruv-C”) or HNH domains, thus making it catalytically dead. This technique uses a protospacer adjacent to an NGG motif as the target for a guide RNA molecule. The discovery that an endonuclease found in S. pyogenes could be used for this technique won Charpentier and Doudna the Nobel Prize in Chemistry. For 10 points, name this technique that uses the bacterial anti-phage enzyme Cas9 to edit genes. ■END■
| 2024 ACF Regionals @ Berkeley | 01/27/2024 | Y | 3 | 100% | 0% | 33% | 92.67 |
| 2024 ACF Regionals @ Cornell | 01/27/2024 | Y | 3 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 121.00 |
| 2024 ACF Regionals @ Imperial | 01/27/2024 | Y | 8 | 88% | 0% | 13% | 93.29 |
| 2024 ACF Regionals @ JMU | 01/27/2024 | Y | 10 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 100.90 |
| 2024 ACF Regionals @ MIT | 01/27/2024 | Y | 3 | 100% | 0% | 33% | 111.00 |
| 2024 ACF Regionals @ Nebraska | 01/27/2024 | Y | 6 | 100% | 0% | 17% | 95.00 |
| 2024 ACF Regionals @ Ohio State | 01/27/2024 | Y | 3 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 89.00 |
| 2024 ACF Regionals @ Rutgers | 01/27/2024 | Y | 5 | 100% | 0% | 40% | 111.80 |
| 2024 ACF Regionals @ Vanderbilt | 01/27/2024 | Y | 5 | 100% | 0% | 20% | 101.80 |
| Player | Team | Opponent | Buzz Position | Value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Danny Han | Penn | John Jay | 27 | -5 |
| Jeffrey Fung | Harvard A | Harvard B | 42 | -5 |
| Vinu Harihar | Berkeley C | Berkeley B | 62 | 10 |
| Jacob Martin | Maryland B | Virginia C | 65 | 10 |
| Noah Chen | Columbia B | Johns Hopkins | 67 | 10 |
| Allan Lee | Stanford C | Stanford B | 70 | -5 |
| Oscar Despard | Cambridge A | Sheffield | 74 | 10 |
| Kevin Park | Claremont A | Iowa B | 75 | 10 |
| Ben Russell Jones | Edinburgh | Imperial B | 80 | 10 |
| Ben LaFond | Cambridge B | Oxford B | 82 | 10 |
| Brian Lai | Virginia B | GWU A | 83 | 10 |
| Dimitris Kalafatis | Texas A&M B | Texas A&M A | 83 | 10 |
| Ryan Humphrey | Texas A | UW A | 83 | 10 |
| Vedang Singhal | UNC D | Liberty A | 83 | 10 |
| Bryanna Shao | Vanderbilt A | MTSU | 83 | 10 |
| Alexander Clarke | Dartmouth A | Dartmouth B | 85 | 10 |
| Iris Pardue | Kenyon | Michigan C | 85 | 10 |
| Sam Moore | Durham A | Warwick | 86 | 10 |
| Davin Sivertson | Alabama | Georgia Tech B | 86 | 10 |
| Russell Nip | UBC A | Rice A | 88 | 10 |
| Dennis Yang | Michigan B | Ohio State A | 90 | 10 |
| Michał Gerasimiuk | Stanford A | Berkeley A | 92 | 10 |
| Ivvone Zhou | UNC B | Liberty C | 92 | 10 |
| Yashwanth Bajji | Michigan A | Ohio State B | 92 | 10 |
| Amogh Kulkarni | Geodesic | Tennessee | 92 | 10 |
| Ted Warner | Bristol | Oxford C | 98 | -5 |
| Caleb West | Kentucky | Harding | 98 | -5 |
| Aisling Skeet | Durham B | Imperial A | 100 | 10 |
| Tom Doyle | Vassar | Columbia C | 102 | -5 |
| Michael Eng | UNC C | Roanoke College A | 103 | 10 |
| Joseph Chambers | Virginia A | UNC A | 105 | 10 |
| Jacob Robertson | Oxford A | Kiel | 107 | 10 |
| Brian Dudley | William & Mary A | JMU A | 112 | 10 |
| Grace Early | Iowa A | Appalachian State | 118 | 10 |
| Ethan Rehder | Duke A | JMU B | 120 | 10 |
| Arjun Bothra | Haverford | NYU B | 120 | 10 |
| Yared Tadesse | Cornell A | Cornell C | 120 | 10 |
| Cade Reinberger | RIT B | Cornell B | 120 | 10 |
| Caleb Kendrick | Maryland A | Maryland C | 122 | 10 |
| Elijah Scheinson | Oxford C | Bristol | 123 | 0 |
| Aswath Karai | Michigan State A | Sorbonne | 123 | -5 |
| Cormac Beirne | Sorbonne | Michigan State A | 123 | 10 |
| Bianca Van Zile | Binghamton | RIT A | 123 | 10 |
| Linus Luu | Cambridge C | KCL | 124 | 10 |
| Annie Goodman | GWU B | Liberty B | 124 | 10 |
| James McCurley | Harvard B | Harvard A | 124 | 10 |
| Jerry Vinokurov | John Jay | Penn | 124 | 10 |
| Caden Haustein | Harding | Kentucky | 124 | 10 |
| Phoebe Yao | Tufts B | Tufts A | 124 | 10 |
| Andrew Zeng | Stanford B | Stanford C | 124 | 10 |
| Jacob Hardin-Bernhardt | NYU A | Rowan | 124 | 10 |
| Albert Zhang | Columbia C | Vassar | 124 | 10 |
| Jack Oberman | South Carolina | Georgia Tech A | 124 | 10 |