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What is therapeutic cloning?
What is cloning?
Embryonic stem cells are already being used to treat many different diseases.
False
A gene mutation occurs in cells that produce _______ .
What is gametes.
This is caused by a mutation that affects pigments.
What is albinism.
This is the type of mutation that does NOT affect the offspring?
What is somatic mutation?
John and Mary are 12-year old twins. What kind of twins are they?
What are Fraternal?
Inbreeding attempts to preserve the special characteristics of a breed.
True
This is a change in number of genes on a chromosomes.
What is chromosomal change.
This is the choosing of organisms with desirable traits for breeding.
To develop a new type of dog, a breeder selects and mates breeds that have the characteristics he wants in the new breed. This breeding is an example of what?
What is crossbreeding?
This is a scientific effort to map all human genes
What is the Human Genome Project?
A gene mutation may result in an incorrect protein being produced.
True
What type of mutation causes the death of an organism?
What is a lethal mutation?
This is the mating of an organism with a close relative.
What is inbreeding.
They place the gene for human insulin into the bacteria's DNA and collect the insulin that the bacteria produced.
Which of the following cells has already been differentiated: human skin cell, a stem cell, a cow embryo, or all of them?
Human skin cell
Somatic stem cells are stem cells that have experienced a somatic mutation.
False.
This is a change in the sequence of bases that make up a gene.
What is a gene mutation.
What is genetic engineering?
What types of cells can become many different types of cells?
What are stem cells?
True or False: Mutations are seldom considered harmful.
False.
Clones are more common in the plant kingdom than in the animal kingdom.
True.
This is the type of mutation that occurs in body cells.
What is somatic mutation?
This is a complete set of an organism's genes.
What is a genome?