What is the collection of technologies that are applied to living organisms or substances derived from living organisms in order to meet a need or want.
100
This is the definition of a cell culture.
What is a lab technique that involves growing cells outside their natural environment.
100
This is the definition of a genetic transformation.
What is the modification of a species' genome either by removing or modifying one or more of its genes or by introducing genes from another species.
100
This is the definition of assisted reproduction.
What are all medical procedures used to help women become pregnant.
100
This is the definition of specialized cells.
What are cells which play specific roles in the body and which, upon division, produce cells with the same specialized functions.
200
This key difference distinguishes a yeast from a bacteria.
What is yeasts have nuclei while bacteria do not.
200
These are the four stages of cell culture growth.
What are lag phase, log phase, stationary phase and death phase.
200
These are the two types of artificial cloning.
What are reproductive and therapeutic cloning.
200
This type of vaccine contains only the antigens of an infectious agent.
What is an inactive vaccine.
200
This is the definition of stem cells.
What are cells with no specific function in the body, but which can divide many times and can transform into a variety of specialized cells.
300
These are the two methods of modern biotechnology.
What are cell cultures and genetic transformation.
300
These are the four steps of culturing cells.
What are collecting a sample, transferring to an appropriate culture medium, incubate in favourable conditions, grow new cells
300
This is the definition of pasteurization.
What is a process whereby food is heated for a period of time in order to destroy harmful microorganisms.
300
These assisted reproduction methods see fertilization happen within the woman.
What are ovarian stimulation and artificial insemination.
300
These are two places where stem cells may be found.
What are bone marrow (adult) and human embryos (embryonic).
400
These are the three fields of traditional biotechnology.
What are agriculture, breeding and food production.
400
These are the five common sterilization methods.
What are dry heat, hot air oven, moist heat, chemical, irradiation
400
This is the key step in artificial cloning.
What is replacing the nucleus of an unfertilized egg with a nucleus from a cell of the organism to be cloned.
400
This is how genetic transformation may produce better live vaccines.
What is by transforming the infectious agent genetically to make it harmless.
400
This permission is needed for umbilical cord or placenta use in stem cell research.
What is the permission of both parents.
500
These are four of the book-listed fields of modern biotechnology.
What are agriculture, breeding, food production, medicine, industrial production, the environment.
500
These are five of the parameters to be controlled in a culture medium.
What are water level, nutrient composition, mineral level, O2/CO2 level, temperature, pH, light level
500
These are the six steps of a typical genetic transformation.
What is identify a need or want, identify a trait that meets need, identify and isolate gene that controlls trait, replicate gene, transfer gene into cells to be modified, culture the modified cells.
500
These are three listed concerns with infertility treatments.
What are risk of multiple births, high cost of treatment, risk of embryos being selected purely for desired traits, risk that in vitro produces embryos that could be frozen for stem cell use.
500
These are two concerns of developing stem cell cultures.
What are it may lead to the destruction of human embryos and it may lead to the marketing or illegal trafficking of embryos.