A key step of the “SeSaM” version of this technique is strand cleavage at phosphorothioate (“phosphor-oh-thio-ate”) groups followed by amplification with TdT. The “insertional” form of this technique uses P-element or Sleeping Beauty transposons. One form of this technique transforms DUT and UDG deficient E. coli strains with M13 phagemids and was developed by Thomas Kunkel. Alanine scanning is a diagnostic form of this technique, which can be done randomly using ethyl nitrosoureas (“nitroso-ureas”). A form of this technique uses a variant of PCR with manganese ions instead of magnesium ones to coordinate “sloppy” Taq polymerases. Stratagene developed the “Quikchange” kit for the “site-directed” form of this technique. For 10 points, name this technique for introducing sequence changes into a target genome. ■END■
| California (North) | Main Site | Y | 3 | 67% | 0% | 0% | 68.00 |
| California (South) | Main Site | Y | 4 | 50% | 0% | 0% | 77.50 |
| Canada | Main Site | Y | 10 | 50% | 0% | 20% | 98.60 |
| Florida | Main Site | Y | 3 | 33% | 0% | 0% | 101.00 |
| Great Lakes | Main Site | Y | 5 | 60% | 0% | 40% | 91.67 |
| Lower Mid-Atlantic | Main Site | Y | 9 | 11% | 0% | 11% | 105.00 |
| Midwest | Main Site | Y | 8 | 50% | 0% | 25% | 104.25 |
| Northeast | Main Site | Y | 5 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 105.60 |
| Overflow | Main Site | Y | 4 | 25% | 0% | 0% | 120.00 |
| South Central | Main Site | Y | 2 | 0% | 0% | 0% | 0.00 |
| Southeast | Main Site | Y | 7 | 43% | 0% | 29% | 104.00 |
| UK | Main Site | Y | 12 | 50% | 0% | 17% | 100.00 |
| Upstate NY | Main Site | Y | 4 | 0% | 0% | 50% | 0.00 |
| Player | Team | Opponent | Buzz Position | Value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Vinu Harihar | Berkeley B | Stanford A | 32 | 10 |
| Jason Zhang | Toronto B | Toronto Metropolitan | 32 | -5 |
| Zoë McGuire | Oxford B | Cardiff | 46 | -5 |
| Yoyo Liu | UBC B | Waterloo A | 48 | 10 |
| Oscar Despard | Cambridge A | Oxford A | 63 | 10 |
| Nick Machin | UCLA A | UC Santa Barbara | 68 | 10 |
| Teigue Kelly | Penn State | Binghamton A | 81 | -5 |
| Jason Thieu | Michigan State | Ohio State B | 83 | -5 |
| Tiffany Zhou | Ohio State A | Pittsburgh | 84 | 10 |
| Jacob Finley | Notre Dame A | Chicago E | 84 | -5 |
| Fish Tsai | UCSD A | UCSD C | 87 | 10 |
| Katie Farthing | Vanderbilt B | Mississipi State | 87 | -5 |
| Ilyas Choukri | Virginia Tech A | Duke | 88 | -5 |
| Dennis Yang | Michigan B | CWRU B | 90 | 10 |
| Jonathan Huang | MIT | Dartmouth B | 93 | 10 |
| Max Polsky | Western B | Queen's | 95 | -5 |
| Shiva Tegulla | Central Florida A | Central Florida C | 101 | 10 |
| Yashwanth Bajji | Michigan A | Michigan C | 101 | 10 |
| Mason Yu | Brown | Brandeis A | 102 | 10 |
| Jack Lewis | Bruin | Tennessee A | 102 | 10 |
| Aden Sun | Chicago B | Illinois C | 103 | 10 |
| Swapnil Garg | Berkeley A | Berkeley C | 104 | 10 |
| Matthew Westley | Purdue A | Illinois A | 104 | 10 |
| Ted Warner | Bristol | Warwick A | 104 | 10 |
| Alden Thompson | Carleton University | Simon Fraser | 105 | 10 |
| Russell Nip | UBC A | Western C | 105 | 10 |
| Samuel Li | William and Mary | North Carolina C | 105 | 10 |
| Cooper Stringer | Northwestern C | Chicago C | 105 | 10 |
| Alex Akridge | Indiana A | Chicago A | 105 | 10 |
| Yixi Yang | Yale | Southern Connecticut State | 105 | 10 |
| Tianyu Xu | Georgia Tech B | Louisville B | 105 | 10 |
| S. A. Shenoy | Georgia Tech D | WashU A | 105 | 10 |
| Roselyn Daffin | Southampton B | City St. George's | 105 | 10 |
| Alex Baker | Cambridge B | Edinburgh A | 105 | 10 |
| Hamish Campbell | Durham | Southampton A | 105 | -5 |
| Rohan Ganeshan | Harvard A | Harvard B | 108 | 10 |
| Krishna Girish | Montpellier | LSE | 108 | 10 |
| Harris Beckner | Alabama A | Georgia Tech C | 114 | -5 |
| Colin Veevers | Ottawa | McGill A | 115 | 10 |
| Oliver West | Cambridge C | Warwick B | 115 | 10 |
| Eli O'Sick Johnson | Binghamton B | Cornell C | 116 | -5 |
| Jacob Goodson | Ohio State C | CWRU A | 118 | -5 |
| David Nickel | Purdue B | Northwestern B | 118 | -5 |
| Ryan Fang | Stanford B | Berkeley D | 120 | 0 |
| Rishabh Dave | Berkeley D | Stanford B | 120 | 0 |
| Katherine Mack | UC Irvine | Arizona State | 120 | 0 |
| Stefan Stealey-Euchner | Arizona State | UC Irvine | 120 | 0 |
| Nick Powers | UCSD B | UCLA B | 120 | 0 |
| Andrew Nucci | UCLA B | UCSD B | 120 | 0 |
| Franklin Wu | Toronto C | Brock | 120 | 0 |
| Nicholas Kwan | Western A | McGill B | 120 | 0 |
| Amir Dolansky | Toronto E | Toronto G | 120 | 0 |
| Ishan Joshi | Toronto Metropolitan | Toronto B | 120 | 0 |
| Brendan Bridle | Queen's | Western B | 120 | 10 |
| Samuel Zheng | Toronto D | McMaster B | 120 | 0 |
| Charlotte Bauer | McGill B | Western A | 120 | 0 |
| Yusuf Baig | McMaster B | Toronto D | 120 | 0 |
| Noelle Sherwood | Brock | Toronto C | 120 | 0 |
| Nicholas Cuevas | Florida B | Central Florida B | 120 | 0 |
| Nicholas Nguyen | Florida A | Florida C | 120 | 0 |
| Khanh Nguyen | Florida C | Florida A | 120 | 0 |
| Peyton Legg | Central Florida B | Florida B | 120 | 0 |
| Jake Meltzer | CWRU A | Ohio State C | 120 | 0 |
| Aditya Patnaik | Ohio State B | Michigan State | 120 | 0 |
| Joseph Cole | North Carolina A | James Madison B | 120 | 0 |
| Emily Kadolph | Virginia Tech B | Liberty C | 120 | 0 |
| Liam Rojas | Virginia | Liberty A | 120 | 0 |
| Jesse Mindel | NC State A | VCU | 120 | 0 |
| Kabir Zaman | South Carolina B | Liberty B | 120 | 0 |
| John McQueen | South Carolina A | NC State B | 120 | 0 |
| Walter Carson | NC State B | South Carolina A | 120 | 0 |
| Jaden Rupolo | Liberty B | South Carolina B | 120 | 0 |
| Noah Fine | North Carolina B | Wake Forest | 120 | 0 |
| Katie Young | Liberty C | Virginia Tech B | 120 | 0 |
| Owen Banks | Duke | Virginia Tech A | 120 | 0 |
| Nathan Redford | Liberty A | Virginia | 120 | 0 |
| Micah Williams | VCU | NC State A | 120 | 0 |
| James Watson | Wake Forest | North Carolina B | 120 | 0 |
| Summer Solis | James Madison B | North Carolina A | 120 | 0 |
| Shardul Parthasarathy | Illinois B | Chicago D | 120 | 0 |
| Samuel Lipsutz | Chicago E | Notre Dame A | 120 | 0 |
| Emily Justak | Indiana C | Northwestern D | 120 | 0 |
| Dustin Sanders | Chicago D | Illinois B | 120 | 0 |
| Timothy Chiu | Northwestern D | Indiana C | 120 | 0 |
| Azura Gollamudi | Northwestern B | Purdue B | 120 | 0 |
| Nate Kodama | Bowdoin B | Bowdoin A | 120 | 10 |
| Puna Ekka | Minnesota A | Carleton College | 120 | 0 |
| Braden Booth | Missouri A | Missouri B | 120 | 0 |
| Merrick Hill | Iowa State | Georgia Tech A | 120 | 0 |
| Isaac Studley | Carleton College | Minnesota A | 120 | 0 |
| Yaj Jhajhria | Washington A | Washington B | 120 | 10 |
| Rohan Dalal | Georgia Tech A | Iowa State | 120 | 0 |
| Tommy Donelon | Missouri B | Missouri A | 120 | 0 |
| Simarya Ahuja | Washington B | Washington A | 120 | 0 |
| Shreyas Sinha | Texas B | Murray State A | 120 | 0 |
| Athena Shadden | Texas A | Texas A&M A | 120 | 0 |
| Camrun Scott | Murray State A | Texas B | 120 | 0 |
| Sushanth Balaraman | Texas A&M A | Texas A | 120 | 0 |
| Snehan Saroch | Louisville A | Alabama B | 120 | 0 |
| Alina Moore | Tennessee B | Kentucky | 120 | 0 |
| Virginia Stewart | Alabama B | Louisville A | 120 | 0 |
| Caleb West | Kentucky | Tennessee B | 120 | 0 |
| Towery McNeil | Mississipi State | Vanderbilt B | 120 | 0 |
| Emerson Patmore | Georgia Tech C | Alabama A | 120 | 0 |
| Ted Harrison | Edinburgh B | Birmingham | 120 | 0 |
| Nathan Long | Imperial B | UCL | 120 | 0 |
| Charlie Lowman | Imperial A | Manchester | 120 | 0 |
| Hiten Umarnani | Imperial C | Oxford C | 120 | 0 |
| Mikey Brown | Birmingham | Edinburgh B | 120 | 0 |
| Alan Hughes | UCL | Imperial B | 120 | 0 |
| Harri Slaughter | Cardiff | Oxford B | 120 | 0 |
| Arran Bligh | Oxford C | Imperial C | 120 | 0 |
| Kai Madgwick | Manchester | Imperial A | 120 | 0 |
| Alan Li | Cornell C | Binghamton B | 120 | 0 |
| Alec Riso | Cornell A | Cornell B | 120 | 0 |
| Pranaav Senthilkumar | Cornell B | Cornell A | 120 | 0 |
| Cade Reinberger | RIT | Rochester | 120 | 0 |
| Killian Simonson | Rochester | RIT | 120 | 0 |
| Ariyan Miah | Binghamton A | Penn State | 120 | 0 |