Genetic Engineering

The purpose of selective breeding is to 

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

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The transfer of a gene from the DNA of one organism into another organism in order to produce an organism with desired traits.

• Genetic Engineering
• Karyotype
• Pedigree
• Genome

Two llamas are produced with the exact same DNA in a science lab. What is this known as?

• Selective Breeding

• Genetically Modified Organisms

• Cloning

• Gene Therapy

What is gene therapy?

• Inserting copies of a gene directly into a person's cells

• Producing organisms with identical copies of DNA

• Crossing two individuals that have similar desirable characteristics or traits

• Crossing two individuals that have different characteristics or traits

If scientists engineer the DNA of tomatoes to make them survive in cold temperatures, what do the tomatoes become known as?

• Human Genome Project

• Genetically Modified Organisms

• Punnett Squares

• Gene Therapy

Which of the following is an example of a human protein that has been genetically engineered?

• Glucose

• Myosin

• Gastrin

• Insulin

What is gene splicing?

• When scientists insert DNA into a plasmid of a bacterium

• When scientists insert a plasmid into the DNA of a bacterium

• When scientists insert a bacterium into the DNA of a plasmid

A plant known as African Violets are easily _________________ because if you cut off the stem and put it in soil it will produce a while new plant genetically identical to the one it came from.

• Engineered

• Maintained

• Cloned

• Spliced

Problems with selective breeding such as inbreeding include

• Better animals

• More Meat

• Animals can have health problems due to inheriting a genetic disorder

• more diversity

What is Genetic Engineering?

• the manipulation of an organism’s genes
• a change in an organism's genes
• a random and abrupt disruption to DNA
• the manipulation of an organism's appearance