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Genetic Engineering
Human Applications of Genetic Engineering
Genetic Engineering in Agriculture
Genetically Engineered Medicines
100
The process of manipulating genes for practical purposes.
What is genetic engineering?
100
Cohen and Boyer
Who are the people that produced the first genetically engineered organisms?
100
An illness in which the body is unable to control levels of sugar in the blood because a critical protein, insulin, cannot be made.
What is Juvenile Diabetes?
100
Farmers used this method by selecting seeds from their best plants, replanting them, and gradually improving the quality of successive generations.
What is primitive genetic breeding?
100
Erythropoetin
What is used for the treatment of Anemia?
200
An agent that is used to carry the gene of interest to another cell.
What is a vector?
200
What Cohen and Boyer injected into Escherichia Coli Bacteria.
What is African Clawed Frog DNA?
200
A protein that promotes blood clotting.
What is Factor VIII?
200
A biodegradable weedkiller.
What is Glyphosate?
200
Growth Factors
What is used for the treatment of burns/ulcers?
300
A solution containing all or part of a harmless version of a pathogen.
What is a vaccine?
300
Someone who does not produce enough insulin.
What is a Diabetic?
300
A deficiency in factor VIII.
What is Hemophilia?
300
An edible plant that is eaten mostly in Asia, and has low levels on iron and beta carotene.
What is Rice?
300
Human growth hormone
What is used for the treatment of growth defects?
400
Radioactive or fluorescent labeled RNA or single-stranded DNA pieces that are complementary to the gene of interest.
What is a probe?
400
Viral diseases that cannot be treated effectively by existing drugs.
What is Smallpox and Polio?
400
Weeds may become resistant to weed-killer.
What are the malfunctions of genetic breeding in plants?
400
Interferons
What is used for the treatment of viral infections and cancer?
500
Circular DNA molecules that can replicate independently of the main chromosomes of bacteria.
What is a plasmid?
500
A protein hormone that controls sugar metabolism.
What is Insulin?
500
A solution which has been prepared either by killing a specific pathogenic microbe or by making the microbe unable to grow.
What is Vaccine?
500
The stuff farmers add to cows to improve milk production.
What is growth hormone?
500
Taxol
What is used for the treatment of Ovarian cancer?