Selective Breeding
Selection
Genetic Engineering
Gene Therapy
Take It Futher
100
Name three things humans have changed through artificial selection that we have talked about in class?
Ex. What are racehorses, tastier fruits, and thicker coats on dogs?
100
What is artificial selection?
What is the human control of reproduction in order to influence the traits present in offspring?
100
What is DNA?
What is the genetic material organisms?
100
What does GMO stand for?
What are Genetically Modified Organisms?
100
What is required for artificial selection?
Ex. Two organisms that can reproduce and a person to select traits.
200
What is selective breeding?
What is the breeding of specific organisms based on preferred traits?
200
What is natural selection?
What is the process by which a population's environment determines which traits are beneficial and which are not?
200
Explain biotechnology.
What is the use of biological understanding to solve practical problems?
200
What is gene therapy?
What is a technique that uses genes to treat or prevent disease?
200
What is the advantage of using genetically modified organisms?
Ex. Insect resistance, Virus resistance, and reduced need for pesticides
300
What is a Punnett square?
What is a square diagram that is used to predict the genotypes of a particular cross or breeding experiment?
300
The phrase "Survival of the Fittest" would best describe what type of inheritance pattern?
What is natural selection?
300
What is genetic engineering or GMOs?
What is the process of modifying DNA for use in research, medicine, or agriculture?
300
Describe one disease a person may have which may be treated with gene therapy.
cancer, cystic fibrosis, heart disease, diabetes, hemophilia and AIDS.
300
Explain the ethics that might arise from genetic engineering?
What is,
Ex.- Playing god and controlling the animals on Earth.
400
Who developed the foundation for understanding how breeding influences traits in a population?
Gregor Mendel
400
What are the difference between natural and artificial selection?
What is the difference between the two is that natural selection happens naturally, but artificial selection only occurs when humans intervene?
400
Explain the differences and the similarities between artificial selection and genetic engineering.
What is, artificial selection selects for traits already present in a species, whereas genetic engineering creates new traits. They are both changing an organism to what the person wants?
400
Explain one way that scientists are able to insert the DNA into a human cell.
vector - like a virus
CRISPR
400
How might the artificial selection of plant-helping bacteria affect society?
Ex. Boosts the economy by increasing farmer profits, and it reduces pollution from artificial fertilizers.
500
Solve this punnet square.
What is...
1- Hh 2-Hh 3-Hh 4-Hh
500
What are the similarities between natural and artificial selection?
What are the desirable characteristics more likely to be passed on/selected to the offspring?
500
What are dominant and recessive alleles?
If the alleles of a gene are different, one allele will be expressed; it is the dominant gene. The effect of the other allele, called recessive, is masked. - National Human Genome Research Institute
500
Name one of the three ways that gene therapy "fixes" an issue in the DNA.
Replacing mutated genes.
Fixing mutated genes.
Making diseased cells more evident to the immune system.
500
What is GINA or Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act?
The Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act of 2008 (GINA) is a U.S. law protecting people from genetic discrimination in health insurance and employment by making it illegal for insurers to use genetic data to set premiums or deny coverage and for employers to use it for hiring, firing, promotion, or other employment decisions.