GMO Science
What does GMO stand for?
Genetically modified organisms
What is the class of molecules for beta-carotene called?
Carotenoids
What profession does Bioethics mainly apply to?
Doctors/healthcare workers
Which organism is primarily used in molecular cloning?
Bacteria
Who gave the first current event?
Emily
Who approves GMO production in the United States?
Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
What two groups does VAD mostly affect?
Pregnant women and children
When a resource is scarce, who should get it during a crisis?
The person who will make the most use of it.
What does DNA stand for?
Deoxyribonucleic acid
What is the term for only allowing certain groups to reproduce and give one example from class.
Eugenics
Who approves food in Bangladesh?
Bangladesh Food Safety Authority (BFSA)
When was Golden Rice developed?
1990s
What did Happy the elephant try to achieve in court?
Personhood
What term is used to describe DNA after it has been edited?
Recombinant
Which amino acid is in DNA but not RNA
Thymine
This type of rice was genetically modified to contain higher levels of vitamin A, combating malnutrition in developing countries.
What is Golden Rice?
Name one of the two scientists who developed Golden Rice
Ingo Potykus or Peter Beyer
What are the four principles of bioethics?
Beneficence
Nonmaleficence
Autonomy
Justice
When DNA is cut, two types of ends can be produced. What are they?
Cohesive (sticky)
Blunt
What is the current cost of a human life (in US dollars)?
$10 million
What are the two methods used to genetically modify plants?
1. Gene gun method
2. Biological vector - Agrobacterium tumefaciens
Name two out of the five main reasons that beta-carotene is essential for the human diet
Helps maintain eyesight, cell differentiation, immune responses, reproduction, and gene expression
Who developed the Violinist thought experiment we discussed in class?
Judith Jarvis Thomson
Insulin was the case study we learned about in class. What year was it discovered?
1922
What does CRISPR stand for?
Clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats