Genes
Evolution
Wolf or Woof
Genetic Engineering Lingo
Which G.E. animal?
100
two of the same allele (tt or TT)
What is homozygous
100
"father" of evolutionary theory
What is Darwin (Charles Darwin)?
100
the ancestor of all dogs
What is a wolf (the gray wolf)?
100
the scientific technique in which the DNA from one organism is used to produce the other, genetically identical, organism
What is cloning?
100
Aim of research : a breed that humans are not allergic to
What is cats?
200
two different alleles in a genotype (like Bb)
What is heterozygous?
200
the changing of plants or animals over time
What is evolution?
200
besides dogs and wolves, another member of the Canid family
What is [ fox, jackal, hyena, coyote, etc]?
200
stands for deoxyribonucleic acid
What is DNA?
200
Reason of research: to reduce the processing costs associated with food production
What is chicken?
300
the "father" of genetics
What is Mendel (Gregor Mendel)?
300
Nature favoring traits of some living things over others, and these living things passing these "favorable" traits on to offspring
What is Natural Selection?
300
the name of dogs that are not mixed-breed
What is pure breed or pedigree?
300
a sequence of DNA
What is a gene?
300
Aim of research: to clone a rare or extinct animal
What is Asian gaur or wolves?
400
the physical expression of a gene
What is a phenotype?
400
humans selecting which animals get to breed, in order to have favorable traits in the offspring
What is selective breeding (or Artificial selection)?
400
2 benefits of selective breeding of dogs
What is "traits more predictable", keeps breeds from extinction, etc?
400
any organism that contains DNA not originally from that organism
What is transgenic?
400
Aim or research: used to create an animal "model" of a human or animal illness
What is mice, rats, or sheep?
500
the passing of traits from parent to offspring
What is heredity?
500
the animal that was studied in Siberia (and still is being studied) that proved that evolution can happen quickly , in leaps and bounds
What is the fox (silver fox) ?
500
two negatives of selective breeding
What is "more likely diseases, financial drain on families to fix genetically hurt animals, etc"?
500
organisms who pick up changes to DNA naturally throughout their life and pass these changes onto their offspring
What is spontaneous mutants?
500
Aim of research: to create an animal with organs that are suitable for transplant into humans
What is the pig?
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