Summer Enrichment Part 2

using living things or parts of living things to produce a product or solve a problem

• biotechnology
• tissue culturing
• bioremediation
• transgenic

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All of the following are advantages of GMO's except

• pest resistant crops
• more nutritional foods
• unknown long term health effects
• creating more human insulin

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Which field would most likely NOT incorporate  biotechnology?

• Agriculture 
• Genetics 
• Medicine
• Mining 

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Which agricultural benefit can biotechnology  provide?

• developing plants that are less dependent on the sun for energy
• developing plants that are less sensitive to variations in environmental temperatures
• developing plants with inheritable traits unrelated to the genetic material they contain
• developing plants that will not die

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Which of the following subjects would someone  most likely study if he or she wanted to work in  the biotechnology field?

• Chemistry 
• Genetics
• Physics 
• Environmental Science 

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Which of the following careers would a student studying biotechnology most likely pursue?

• electrical Engineering 
• Astronomy 
• Agricultural research 
• Geology 

What is involved in creating genetically modified bacteria?

• allowing them to reproduce freely
• changing their food source
• using biotechnology techniques
• growing them on selected plants

Which of these is not a way in which biotechnology can benefit agriculture?

• increase crop population
• reducing the loss of crops to insects
• producing better-tasting fruits
• improving farm machinery

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Which of these would be a concern about the use of biotechnology?

• creation of new pathogens
• making of new vaccines
• increased opportunities for jobs
• increased crop yield

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___________ changes the genetic material of a living organism.

• Crossbreeding 
• Genetic Modification 
• Bioremediation
• Genome

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