Biology Chapter 7

The use of technology to enhance living organisms and processes.

• Biology
• Biosynthesis
• Biotechnology
• Biome

Any one of a group of organisms produced asexually from an individual organism

• Clone
• Genome
• Dolly
• Clade

The hereditary information encoded in an organism's DNA

• Genetic Engineering
• Gene Therapy
• Recombinant DNA
• Genome

A new section of DNA that contains specific gene(s) spliced into it

• Transgenic
• Sequencing
• Recombinant DNA
• Translation

The manipulation of chromosomes or genes by methods other than normal reproduction

• Gene Therapy
• Genetic Engineering
• DNA Fingerprinting
• Genetic Screening

It is able to cut and separate DNA strands

• Restriction Enzyme
• Deletion
• Translocation
• Transgenic

A generalized cell that has the ability to differentiate into cells for specific functions

• Stoma
• Somatic Stem Cell
• Embryonic Cell
• Stem Cell

Containing genes from more than one species

• Translation
• Transgenic
• Plasmid
• Substitution

Cell that is obtained from the differentiated body tissue of adults or children

• Stoma
• Embryonic Cell
• Somatic Stem Cell
• Stem Cell

A small, circular piece of DNA

• Plasmid
• Enzyme
• Adenine
• Protein