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Vaccines and Drugs
Cloning
Genetic Engineering
Transgenic Plants/Animals
Vocabulary
100
A solution containing all or part of a harmless version of a pathegon
What is a vaccine?
100
Animals with foreign DNA.
What are transgenic animals?
100
The process of conditioning the DNA during an early stage of development.
What is genetic imprinting?
100
Plants that have been modified to where they have foreign DNA in the genes.
What are transgenic plants?
100
The process of manipulating genes for practical purposes.
What is genetic engineering?
200
A drug modified by genetic engineering.
What are genetically modified drugs?
200
The first mammal to be cloned from an adult somatic cell.
Who is Dolly, the Sheep
200
A protein hormone that controls sugar metabolism.
What is insulin?
200
Crops that have been modified by adding certain genes to make them healthier.
What are genetically modified crops?
200
DNA made from two or more different organisms
What is recombinant DNA?
300
The system that recognizes the pathogen's surface proteins and responds by making antibodies.
What is the immune system?
300
Happens when many copies of the gene of interest are made each time the host cell reproduces.
What is gene cloning?
300
Cut the DNA from the organism containing the gene of interest.
What are restriction enzymes?
300
A weed killer used in genetically engineered crops that is harmless to humans
What is glyphosphate?
300
Radio-active or fluorescent labeled RNA or single stranded DNA pieces that are complementary ro the gene of interest.
What are probes?
400
Prepared by killing a specific pathogenic microbe or by making the microbe unable to grow.
How are vaccines prepared?
400
A cell that has become specialized to become a specific type of cell.
What is a differentiated cell?
400
The enzyme that is added to help bond the ends of DNA fragments together.
What is DNA ligase?
400
Used to increase the growth of farm animals and to make them bigger.
What are growth hormones?
400
Agents that are used to carry the gene of interest into another cell.
What are vectors?
500
Protein that causes body to lose control of sugar in blood when it cant be made.
What is insulin?
500
The scientist that announced the first successful cling using differentiated cells from an adult animal.
Who is Ian Wilmut?
500
The disease that does not produce enough insulin
What is diabetes?
500
The substitute mother which holds the egg in her nucleus, to give birth to the clone.
What is a surrogate?
500
Circular DNA molecules that can replicate independently of the main chromosomes of bacteria.
What are plasmids?