Biotechnology

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 process uses a body cell to create a new organism?

• Crossbreeding 
• cloning 
• genetic modification 
• gene splicing 

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 has to do with genetic modification?

• Crossbreeding 
• Kidney surgery 
• Gene splicing 
• use of herbicides 

An application of using DNA technology to help environmental scientists would be ___.

• use PCR to analyze DNA at a crime scene
• create a tobacco plant that glows in the dark
• clone the gene for human growth hormone to treat pituitary dwarfism
• make transgenic bacteria that can be used to clean up oil spills more quickly than do the natural bacteria

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Which of the following would be an example of gene therapy technology?

• development of a nasal spray that contains copies of the normal gene that is defective in person with cystic fibrosis
• cutting DNA into fragments with restriction enzymes
• modifying E. coli to produce indigo dye for coloring denim blue jeans
• separation DNA fragments using gel electrophoresis

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Recombinant DNA are currently used to produce____.

• clothing dye, cheese, and laundry products
• human antibiotics and vaccines
• crops that taste better and stay fresh longer
• all of these

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