Vocabulary
Domains
Marcomolecules
Parts of the Cell
Miscellaneous
100
The study and manipulation of living things or their component parts
What is biotechnology?
100
The four domains of biotechnology

What are agricultural, industrial and environmental, diagnostic research, and pharmaceutical?

100
The four types of macromolecules

What are carbohydrates, lipids, proteins, and nucleic acids

100
The "control center" or "powerhouse" of a cell that contains DNA
What is the nucleus?
100
The first genetically engineered product
What is insulin?
200
The study of decision making as it applies to moral decisions that have to be made because of advances in biology and technology
What is bioethics?
200
Examples of this include insulin, antibodies, or human growth hormone
What is pharmaceutical?
200
The elements that make up carbohydrates and lipids
What are carbon, hydrogen, and oxygen?
200
Long strands that carry genetic information to our genes
What are chromosomes?
200
The first genetically engineered organism

What is E. coli?

300
A large molecule usually composed of smaller repeating units chained together
What is a macromolecule?
300

Examples of this include breeding livestock and marine biotechnology.

What is Agricultural?
300
Build cells, can act as enzymes, and are made of amino acids.
What are proteins?
300

Surrounds the cells of plants and supports the outer boundary of the cell

What is the cell wall?

300
Group of potential products that must be tested in clinical trials before they can be marketed
What are pharmaceutical products?
400

Produced by cutting and pasting pieces of DNA together from two different organisms

What is recombinant DNA?

400

Examples of this include biofuels and 3D bioprinting.

What is Industrial and Enviornmental?
400
Made of one or two nucleotide chains (each made of a sugar group, a phosphate group, and nitrogenous bases)
What is a nucleic acid?
400

The organelles where proteins are made

What are ribosomes?

400

Known as the "Birthplace of Biotechnology" and home to Genentech, Inc.

What is South San Francisco, California?

500
DNA codes for mRNA production. The mRNA molecule is translated into protein molecules
What is the Central Dogma of Molecular Biology?
500

Examples of this include protein synthesis and nanotechnology.

What is Diagnostic Research?
500

Distinguishes one amino acid from another

What is the R group?
500
Part of the cell that regulates the movement of materials in and out of the cell
What is the plasma membrane?
500

Research and Development, Manufacturing and Production, Clinical Research, or Quality Control are categories for these

What are scientific positions in biotechnology?

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