Biotechnology Week 1

Reproduction involving two parents, allowing for recombination of genes (leads to genetic diversity)

• Sexual Reproduction
• Asexual Reproduction
• Bioremediation
• Protein

The study of heredity, or the passing of genes from parent to offspring

• Forensics
• Genetics
• Gene
• Penicillin

Reproduction involving only one parent

• Bioremediation
• Sexual Reproduction
• Genetic Modification
• Asexual Reproduction

Segment of DNA that codes for a trait

• Genetics
• DNA
• Gene
• Cell

Field of study using living organisms to help manufacture medicine or other beneficial technologies

• Biotechnology
• Protein
• Bioremediation
• Forensics

Unicellular prokaryotic organisms with many important applications in the field of biotechnology

• Bacteria
• Cell
• Protein
• Gene

Deoxyribonucleic acid; contains all heredity information for a living organism (located within each cell of an organism)

• Cell
• Gene
• Protein
• DNA

Mating and producing offspring of animals or plants for specific traits (artificial selection)

• Penicillin
• Selective Breeding
• Bacteria
• Genetics