BioTech 1

When fragments of DNA are connected from different sources, this creates:

• A plasmid

• A clone

• Recombinant DNA

• Fragmented DNA

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Organisms that have had DNA from other organisms inserted into their DNA to produce certain traits are called:

• Plasmids

• Clones

• Transgenic organisms

• Recombinant organisms

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Which of the following is a medical application of genetic engineering?

• Inserting human DNA into bacterial DNA for insulin production

• Manipulating of DNA to produce glowing monkeys

• Engineering crops for greater nutritional content

• Modifying genes to achieve a desirable phenotype

Crops are often genetically engineered for improved traits. Such crops and organisms are called:

• Genetically modified organisms

• Clones

• Transformed

• Nutritionally improved

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Using a virus to enter a cell and replace defective genes with healthy genes is called

• tissue culturing
• bioremediation
• cloning
• gene therapy

the creation of genetically identical organisms

• Bioremediation
• Cloning
• Gene Therapy
• Tissue Culturing

Which field would most likely NOT incorporate  biotechnology?

• Agriculture 
• Genetics 
• Medicine
• Mining 

The Human Genome Project has made diagnosing genetic disorders easier.Once a genetic disorder is diagnosed, ____ can be used as a possible treatment.

• cell cultures
• gene therapy
• DNA fingerprinting
• PCR

A gene gun and a virus may both be classified as ____ because they are mechanisms by which foreign DNA may be transferred into a host cell.

• bacteria
• plasmids
• vectors
• splicers

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

• virus
• plasmid
• gene bullet
• PCR