Genetic Engineering

Biotech foods look and taste the same as traditional foods and crops. The only difference is that biotech food has

• fewer calories.

• the addition of specific minerals.

• genes with traits that improve something about the plant.

• radiation

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What is genetic engineering of plants?

• Adding chemicals to foods to preserve them.

• Making synthetic foods using artificial, man-made proteins.

• Inserting a gene or genes with beneficial traits into a plant cell.

• Taking immature plants and adding steroids to make them grow bigger and stronger.

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An argument in favor of food biotechnology is that it

• provides foods that cure viral diseases.

• provides more food to feed a growing population.

• is popular with all members of the public.

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What is a GMO?

• An organism that has had its DNA modified by humans

• An organism missing a chromosome

• Epigenetics

• A genetically identical organism

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What are genetically modified (GM) organisms and GM foods?

• Foods or organisms with better taste

• Foods or organisms grown in the USA, only

• Foods or organisms with DNA modified in a way that doesn't occur in nature

• Food and organisms that have been injected with hormones

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Putting the gene for bioluminescence into a fish is an example of...

• Genetic Engineering
• Selective Breeding
• Artificial Selection
• Gene Mutation

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DNA can be spliced, in order to insert it in a different organism, using

• prescription enzymes
• digestive enzymes
• restriction enzymes
• transcription enzymes

When human DNA is inserted in bacterial DNA to create insulin it is called

• viral DNA
• bacterial DNA
• recombinant DNA
• transcribed DNA

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Companies that create GMOs can patent genes and DNA sequences so that only they can produce that organism.

• True

• False

Advantages of genetically modified crops include(s)

• insect resistance

• drought/freeze resistance

• higher yield (more produced)

• all of these are reasons for using GMOs