Genetic Engineering
Human Applications of Genetic Engineering
Genetic Engineering in Agriculture
Odds and Ends
Vocabulary
100
( ? ) engineering is the process of manipulating genes for practical purposes.
What is Genetic
100
A DNA ( ? ) is the pattern of bands that results when an individual's DNA fragments are separated by gel electrophoresis.
What is fingerprint
100
( ? ) is the process of somatic cell nuclear transfer into an enucleated oocyte.
What is cloning
100
What is a method for preparing a DNA fingerprint?
What is RFLP, or restriction fragment length polymorphism
100
( ? ) uses an electric field within a gel to separate DNA fragments by their size.
What is electrophoresis
200
( ? ) ( ? ) is the process by which many copies of a specific gene are made each time the host cell reproduces.
What is Gene cloning
200
( ? ) ( ? ) ( ? ) is a technique used to quickly make many copies of selected segments of DNA.
What is Polymerase chain reaction, or PCR
200
A ( ? ) animal is an animal that has foreign DNA in their cells.
What is transgenic
200
( ? ) the sheep was the first cloned mammal to survive.
What is Dolly
200
A ( ? ) ( ? ) is a single-stranded end of a double stranded DNA fragment that can form base pairs with another ( ? ) ( ? ) of a DNA fragment cut by the same enzyme.
What is sticky end
300
( ? ) are circular DNA molecules that are usually found in bacteria and that can replicate independently of the main chromosome.
What is Plasmid
300
( ? ) ( ? ) ( ? ) is an international project that mapped the entire genetic material of a human being.
What is Human Genome Project
300
( ? ) ( ? ) used gene technology to clone a sheep in 1996.
What is Ian Wilmut
300
A molecule containing DNA from two or more different organisms is called ( ? ) ( ? ).
What is recombinant DNA
300
( ? ) ( ? ) is a technique that uses an electrical field within a gel to separate molecules added to the gel by their size and charge.
What is gel electrophoresis
400
( ? ) ( ? ) are enzymes that destroy foreign DNA molecules by cutting them at specific sites.
What are restriction enzymes.
400
A ( ? ) is a solution that contains a harmless version of a virus, bacterium, or toxin and that causes an immune response when introduced into the body.
What is a vaccine.
400
( ? ) ( ? ) crops are crops that have been modified, or "improved".
What is genetically modified
400
Genetic engineering depends on the ability of ( ? ) ( ? ) to cut DNA at specific sites.
What is restriction enzymes
400
A ( ? ) is a strand of RNA or a single-stranded DNA that has been labeled with radioactive elements or fluorescent dye and that is used to bind with and identifying a specific gene in genetic engineering.
What is probe
500
The process of isolating a gene sequence in the genome of an organism and inserting the gene sequence into a plasmid vector for production in large numbers is (?) (?).
What is gene cloning
500
The first vaccine was developed by ( ? ) ( ? ) for smallpox.
What is Edward Jenner
500
The process of conditioning the DNA during an early stage of development is called ( ? ) ( ? ).
What is genomic imprinting
500
Injecting a healthy copy of a gene into a person who has a defected gene is called ( ? ) ( ? ).
What is gene therapy
500
A ( ? ) is an agent that is used to carry the gene of interest into another cell.
What is vector