Selective Breeding
Gene Tools
DNA Tech
Cloning
Catch the Reference
100
The processes of crossing two organisms that are not closely-related to produce new combinations of traits.
Hybridization
100
The total DNA of an organism.
Genome.
100
An organism that possesses genes that are modified or from a different species.
Genetically Modified Organism (GMO)
100
First cloned species of mammal, named after Dolly Parton.
Sheep
100
Are you ready, kids?!
Aye-aye, Captain!
200
The processes of crossing two closely-related organisms to preserve desired traits and eliminate undesired ones.
Inbreeding.
200
A gel with an electrical current that causes fragments of DNA to move and separate by size.
Gel electrophoresis
200
The first commercially available genetically modified pets.
GloFish
200
The term for naturally-occurring clones.
Twins
200
Arby's
We have the meats.
300
Another term for "Selective Breeding".
Artificial Selection
300
A technique used to make millions of copies of a specific region of a DNA fragment (gene cloning). Does NOT use bacterial cells.
Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR)
300
Foods made from the use of genetic engineering is sometimes referred to as this, referencing a story about mad science creating new life.
Frankenfood.
300
Cloning is a form of what type of reproduction?
Asexual
300
F is for friends who do stuff together.
U is for you and me.
N is for anywhere and anytime at all
Down here in the deep blue sea!
400
Done to determine the genotype for a trait of an individual by crossing with an individual whose genotype is known, usually homozygous recessive.
Test Cross
400
Proteins that are used to cut DNA so that the ends can be stuck together to recombine different strands.
Restriction Enzymes
400
The heated and prolonged public disagreement about how genetic modification should be handled; whether people should be consuming bioengineered foods, whether we should be modifying genes in humans, etc.
Controversy
400
African American woman whose cancer cells were cloned without permission in use for medical research.
Henrietta Lacks (HeLa)
400
With great power...
Comes great responsibility.
500
What animal has been selectively bred over thousands of years to become "Man's best friend"?
Wolves
500
A circle of DNA found in bacteria or yeasts which can be used as a vector for gene cloning or transforming other cells.
Plasmid
500
The practice of genetic engineering by non-scientists based on the belief that everyone has the right to alter DNA of any organism.
Biohacking
500
The process of cloning an organism that no longer exists. The story of Jurassic Park involves this.
De-extinction
500
Chicken wing, Chicken wing
(Chicken wing, Chicken wing)
Hotdog and Bologna
(Hotdog and Bologna)
600
Name at least 3 plants that we eat that, while different in appearance, are actually all versions of the wild mustard plant (Brassica oleracea).
600
The use of organisms for human benefit. Could describe either genetic engineering or any application of organisms for human work.
Biotechnology
600
A field of study dedicated to the moral and social issues that arise due to the advancement of technology related to the use of organisms, and the applications to people.
Bioethics
600
Name one of the species that humans caused to go extinct that would be a candidate for De-extinction.
Dodo bird, Quagga, Passenger Pigeon, Thylacine, Wooly Mammoth, etc.
600
Once upon a time there was an ugly barnacle. He was so ugly...
That everyone died. The end.
