Recombinant
DNA
Genetic Technology 1
Genetic Technology 2
100
The process of manipulating genes for practical purposes.
What is genetic engineering
100
Scientists added genes to this food to produce a pest-resistant strain of this crop.
What is corn
100
Animals that have foreign DNA in their cells.
What are transgenic animals.
200
DNA made from two or more different organisms.
Recombinant DNA
200
Golden Rice and Bt corn is an example of these
What are Generically Modified Crops (GM crops)
200
This technique separates DNA fragments in order to diagnose genetic diseases or determine the source of DNA.
What is gel electrophoresis.
300
Circular DNA molecules that can replicate independently of the main chromosomes of bacteria
What are Plasmids
300
This organism was the first to be cloned using nuclear transfer
Who is Dolly (the sheep)
300
The areas of DNA that vary between humans.
What are minisatellites.
400
bacterial enzymes that recognize and bind to specific short sequences of DNA, and then cut the DNA between specific nucleotides within the sequence.
What are Restriction Enzymes
400
Why is it necessary to enuculeate an egg cell used in nuclear transfer?
To prevent a triploid zygote
400
This type of gene therapy is not heritable.
What is somatic gene therapy
500
An agent used to carry the gene of interest into another cell.
What is a vector
500
Which initiative used all the genetic technologies discussed in this class to sequence all the DNA in a human.
Human Genome Project
500
This field of genetics that focuses on how environmental changes can turn genes on and off.
What is epigenetics
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