The start and completion date of the Human Genome Project
1990-Feb. 2001 (or April 2003)
100
The purpose of GMOs
What is to alter the genetic material of an organism's genome
100
Biochemical technology in molecular biology used to amplify a single or a few copies of a piece of DNA across several orders of magnitude, generating thousands to millions of copies of a particular DNA sequence
What is a polymerase chain reaction
100
What was the first cloned animal
What is a tadpole
200
Many genetic engineering experiments are performed in bacteria using circular DNA molecules called
What are plasmids
200
The goal of the Human Genome Project
To understand the human genome
200
A genetically modified organism is an organism whose genetic material has been altered using genetic engineering techniques
What is a genetically modified organism
200
A solution containing all or part of a harmless version of a pathogen
What is a vaccine
200
In response to the announcement that Oregon scientists had successfully cloned monkeys from embryos and the announcement of Dolly the sheep, this President banned use of federal money for human cloning research
Who is President Bill Clinton
300
An agent used to carry the gene of interest into another cell
What are vectors
300
The Human Genome Project was expected to take this many years
15 years
300
A biodegradable weedkiller
What is glyphosate
300
Two viral diseases that cannot be effectively treated by existing drugs
What are smallpox and polio
300
The first mammal to be cloned from an adult somatic cell
Who is Dolly the sheep
400
The steps in a genetic engineering experiment
1.Cut DNA
2.Make recombinant DNA
3.Cloning
4.Screening
400
Formally founded the Human Genome Project
US Department of Energy and the National Institutes of Health
400
How can genetic engineers can plants
What is making crops more tolerant to drought conditions and creating plants that can adapt to different soils, climates, and environmental stresses
400
A technique that uses an electrical field within a gel to separate molecules by their size and charge
What is electrophoresis
400
The process of making a genetically identical organism through nonsexual means.
What is cloning
500
Process of making many copies of the gene of interest each time the host cell reproduces
What is gene cloning
500
An organism's complete set of deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA), a chemical compound that contains the genetic instructions needed to develop and direct the activities of every organism
What is a genome
500
In the year 2000 , what percent of 72 million acres soybean planted in the United States were genetically modified to be glyphosate resistant
What is 50%
500
A disease-causing microorganism
What is a pathogen
500
Performed the first successful Embryo Transfer in England with rabbits in 1891