Nanotechnology
Chemical properties refer to how the material will
Interact with other materials
Structure with the potential to develop into any other cell within the human body
totipotent cell
When a scientist charts the position of known genes and other markers relative to each other, this process is called:
genetic mapping
A xenograft is used in a heart transplant. Where did this tissue come from?
A different species
What medical device made the external cardiac pump obsolete?
artificial heart
1)Nanobiotechnology research must be conducted in which type of space designed specifically to keep out all airborne particles
2) Clean rooms are special facilities that are designed to:
1) clean room
2) to keep airborne particles out
The first reports of successful mammal cloning date to the:
20th century
Four o'clock paint plants may have red, white, or pink flowers. This is an example of:
Incomplete Dominance
When scientists are able to use an organ from another species for transplantation, this is known as:
xenograft
Somatic stem cells are undifferentiated cells that are also called:
Adult stem cells
Nano is a prefix that means:
one billionth
Adult stem cells are to be harvested and transplanted into a patient. These cells are most likely to be found in:
Human bone marrow.
Scientists implant genetic information from one species into another to create a customized strain of mice for research. These scientists are creating:
Transgenic animal
In regenerative medicine, once the biomaterial matrix is developed, the scaffolds must be able to:
Dissolve
When researchers apply for a patent from the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, they are seeking approval for:
creating Transgenic animals
The 2 types of microscopes used to manipulate material on the nanoscale
scanning probe and helium ion.
When creating a cloned mammal, what structure contains the genetic information the scientist intends to clone
Somatic cell
Any number of viable DNA codings of the same gene, occupying a given position on a chromosome, are known as a/an:
allele
Which stem cells are most often used to avoid rejection by the patient's immune system:
Adult stem cells
Reproductive cloning is also called:
somatic cell nuclear transfer.
Examining properties that can be described as one-billionth are:
Nanoparticles
Pluripotent stem cells (iPS cells) are reprogrammed adult cells produced in a lab to take on characteristics of which type of stem cell
Embryonic stem cells
The chromosome pairing XX in a human represents:
Female
The first step to building a new organ using regenerative medicine is to build a:
Scaffold
Particles in sunscreen may accumulate in a water source. This is known as:
bioaccumulation