Vocabulary
Insulin Production
Genetic engineering
100

The enzymes which is use DNA at specific sites are called as

what is the Restriction enzymes 

100

Which processes are involved in the down streaming of insulin?

What is the Extraction, purification and packaging. 

100

a type of virus that infects bacteria

What is the bacteriophage

200

Extrachromososmal circular double stranded DNA

What is the Plasmids

200

Why is the same restriction enzyme used to cut out the human insulin gene and cut open the bacterial plasmid?

What is the To provide complementary ‘sticky ends’. 

200

a length of DNA that has a complementary base sequence to another piece of DNA that you are trying to detect

What is the gene probe

300

When making genetically engineered insulin, where is the human insulin gene placed?

What is the bacterial plasmid

300

What is a transgenic organism?

What is the One that has had genetic material from a different species transferred into it 

300

Non coding sequences of DNA is called 

What is the introns

400

Producing many copies of the recombinant plasmid is known as

What is the gene cloning

400

This was used as the template for reverse transcriptase to make single stranded DNA.

What is the mRNA

400

 the genome of a eukaryote includes

DNA in nucleus, mitochondria and chloroplasts

500

These are the only cells to express the insulin gene and they contain large quantities of the mRNA for insulin

What is the Pancreatic Beta cells

500

the complete set of genes or genetic material present in a cell or an organism

What is the genome

500

caused by the inability of the pancreas to produce insulin

What is the Diabetes mellitus