Gene Editing
These are responsible for how you look, such as hair color and eye color.
What are genes?
What does "GMO" stand for?
What is Genetically Modified Organism
The system that protects you from harmful foreign substances
What is the immune system?
These types of organisms from the ocean are often studied by scientists to make medicines or useful products.
What are marine organisms (or sea organisms)
One worry that people have is that humanity is gaining too much control over their own lives, and losing control over
What is natural evolution?
How shape is DNA?
What ais a helix?
What is a technique that alters an organism’s genetic code by adding genes, deleting genes, making changes, etc
____ DNA technology cuts and mixes pieces of DNA to create a new set of instructions that didn't exist before.
What is recombinant?
Why is bioprospecting important?
What is bioprospecting is valuable for identifying organisms with valuable properties, such as medicinal properties, natural antibiotics, and biochemicals; they also allow for financial gain/commercialization (accept either or anything similar)
___ are the encouragement for an experiment/research.
What are incentives?
Where is deoxyribonucleic acid found?
What is the cell's nucleus?
Golden Rice is a GMO that was created to combat deficiencies in what?
What is Vitamin A
Insulin is a hormone made to keep your ___ balanced.
What is blood sugar?
Briefly explain what aquaculture is.
What is the farming of aquatic organisms like fish, shellfish, and algae
True / False - The question "What is a “normal” trait vs a disability/disorder?" is an example of questioning the ethics of biotechnology.
True
What are two common tools for genetic engineering?
What is CRISPR-CAS9 and TALENs?
Name at least two reasons why GMOs are controversial?
What is the risk of allergic reaction, the risk of modified DNA spreading, issues with consent/awareness, impact on ecosystems, etc (only needed to name 2)
Once human insulin genes are inserted into these microbes, they then act as tiny factories to make insulin.
What are bacteria and yeast?
Lipase enzymes are used in what product?
What is detergent or in the food industry (cheese, dairy flavors, etc)
This method is used to answer questions about the ethics of biotechnology.
What is the Five-Approach Ethics Framework?
Name all the components of DNA.
What are the sugar and phosphate backbone and bases of adenine, cytosine, guanine, and thymine?
This is one reason a scientist might genetically modify a crop instead of using pesticides.
What is to reduce insect damage, reduce environmental damage, etc (only needed to name one)
In the process of creating recombinant vaccines, the vaccine only contains the ---- not the whole pathogen.
What is the antigen?
Describe what biofuels are and give one example.
What are renewable energy sources derived from biological materials; possible examples are ethanol and biodiesel (only needed to name one example)
The part of the Five-Approach Ethics Framework that says, "an action is ethical if it does more good than harm for a large number of people."