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Any technology based on a biological system or organism.
What is Biotechnology?
100
Chemicals that kill insects.
What is insecticides?
100
Occurs on land. (A type of ecosystem)
What are Terrestrial ecosystems?
100
A group of organisms of the same species that all live in the same area.
What is a population?
100
Occurs when there are no more living members of a species.
What is extinction?
200
A field of science that studies microbes.
What is Microbiology?
200
Where the oldest applications of biotechnology are found.
What is agriculture?
200
Freshwater ecosystems consist of: (list 5)
What are streams, rivers, lakes, marshes, and swamps?
200
Groups of organisms living in areas that breed to produce fertile offspring.
What are species?
200
The level of salt in water.
What is salinity?
300
Takes a specific portion of a person's DNA and uses laboratory techniques to examine it more closely.
What is DNA analysis?
300
Crop plants modified to produce their own insecticides.
What are insect resistant crops?
300
Where fresh and saltwater meet.
What is an estuary?
300
The places where species live and find food.
What are habitats?
300
The branch of science that usually deals with the legal system.
What is Forensic Science?
400
Uses microbes to remove harmful toxins from the environment.
What is Bioremediation?
400
Modern agricultural biotechnology focuses its efforts on (list 3 things).
What are increasing crop yields, reducing environmental stressors on crops, and improving food quality.
400
Found in water with a high salinity level.
What are marine ecosystems?
400
All the living and non-living things in an area.
What is an ecosystem?
400
The study of an organism's entire genome, including its DNA sequence.
What is genomics?
500
People who apply engineering principals to living systems.
What are bioengineers?
500
Organisms that have genes from a different species artificially inserted into their genome by humans.
What is Transgenic crops?
500
Found just south of the tundra. (a biome)
What is the coniferous forest biome?
500
The number of individuals that a given environment can support.
What is the carrying capacity?
500
The two main categories of limiting factors.
What are density-dependent factors and density-independent factors?