Genetic Engineering

A ____ is a small ring of DNA found in a bacterial cell.

• virus
• plasmid
• gene bullet
• PCR

____ is an application of the human genome project that involves the insertion of normal genes into cells with defective genes in order to correct genetic disorders.

• gene gun
• gene mapping
• gene linkage
• gene therapy

What is recombinant DNA?

• DNA containing genes foreign to that organism
• DNA which has been impacted by epigenetics
• DNA that has restriction enzymes
• DNA that has been sequenced

Which enzyme helps fuse the foreign into the new DNA?

• Ligase
• BamHI
• HindIII
• Polymerase

Restriction enzymes....

• Cut DNA at a specific site
• Can be used to isolate a gene of interest
• Can be used to cut vector DNA
• Do all of these things

The process of putting recombinant DNA into an organism is called....

• Transformation
• Ligating
• Electrophoresis
• Incubating

The purpose of selective breeding is to 

• Get bigger animals
• get smaller animals
• create animals with desirable traits
• create animals with bad traits

Tags

NGSS.HS-LS3-2

Which sequence of DNA bases would pair with this partiaal strand
ATG TGA CAG

• ATG TGA CAG
• TAC ACT GTC
• GTA AGT GAC
• CAT TCA CTG

Which of the following best describes a DNA molecule?

• double helix
• contains ribose
• made of amino acids
• contains Uracil

Tags

NGSS.HS-LS1-1

Adenine bonds with ______________.

• Guanine
• Thymine
• Cytosine
• Adenine