General
The root word meaning of "bio" in biotechnology.
What is "life"?
The shape of DNA.
What is a double helix?
A dish used in the lab to grow germs.
What is a petri dish?
This top technique is used to identify and find one of possible suspects and victims in forensics.
What is DNA fingerprinting?
Directly target and destroy essential parts of bacterial cells, such as their cell walls or DNA, leading to bacterial death
What are antibiotics?
The most important biomolecule in cells important to biotechnology.
What is DNA?
DNA is contained in nucleus in the cell.
What are chromosomes?
It is used to view small objects in detail.
What is a microscope?
With the exception of identical twins, everyone has a _________ DNA fingerprint.
What is different?
Diagnostic biotechnology where they use DNA to solve a crime.
What is forensics?
The definition of biotechnology.
What is using living organisms or their products for commercial purposes?
They discovered the structure of DNA.
Who is Watson, Crick, and Franklin?
The tool used to add small quantities of liquid to something.
What is a pipettor?
The process of generating a genetically identical copy of an organism or cell.
What is cloning?
used to detect and diagnose various viral, bacterial, and fungal infections, including HIV, hepatitis, and COVID-19.
What is ELISA?
All living organisms are composed of these.
What are cells?
The functional units of DNA.
What is a gene?
The tool used to record data, observations, and information in the lab.
What is a lab notebook?
The practices and procedures to prevent contamination from pathogens or germs.
What is aseptic technique?
uses a plasmid to introduce the Green Fluorescent Protein (GFP) gene into bacteria, allowing them to glow green under UV light
What is pGLO Bacterial Transformation?
Used in the laboratory to do experiments.
What are tools?
The way deoxyribonucleic acid is written.
What is DNA?
A tool used to separate DNA fragments according to their size.
What is gel electrophoresis?
The process of combining of DNA from two organisms.
What is a recombinant DNA?
These include concerns about discounting natural resources of developing countries, scientists developing deadly pathogens and creating lifeforms without fully understanding their future impact on the environment.
What are arguments against biotechnology?