What is the process where organisms replace body parts and/or limbs?
Regeneration
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True or False: Cloning has only been tested on animals.
True ( that we know of.)
100
What animal has been used for testing?
mouse
100
The human genome first kicked off in
1946
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What animal can regrow missing legs?
A spider
200
What was the name of the first full grown animal to be cloned, and what did she die of?
Dolly the Sheep died of lung cancer.
200
True or False: The genes of mice are remarkably similar to those of humans
True
200
Who introduced an alternative strategy for sequencing mRNA molecules?
Craig Venter
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When regeneration occurs, does the missing limb grow back exactly the same or deformed like?
It grows back different from the orignal shape.
300
Name the two different types of cloning.
Therapeutic and Reproductive
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Scientists can also use ________ to test drugs
Mouse models
300
The super computers that are used to analyze the human DNA can sequence the DNA at a rate of
1,000 nucleotides per second 24/7
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True or false: All organsims regenerate the same way.
False
400
What percent of cloning attempts failed to produce offspring?
90%
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What is a "transgeneic" animal?
An animal whose cells follow the instructions of the interloper genes as well as those of their ancestral genes (one that carries a foreign gene that has been deliberately inserted into its genome)
400
At first the human DNA was the ____ cellular molecule for biochemists to analyze
Hardest
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What is the most efficient way for some organisms to regenerate?
Morphallaxis
500
Define reproductive cloning.
making a full living copy of an organism
500
Why do scientists use mousemodels, and not a human for example to study the physiology and biochemistry of genetic diseases