Biotechnology#2

_________________ is NOT a common ethical  concern related to human cloning.

• That humans will be created who exist solely as a supply of organs for transplants
• That clones will be more prone to abnormal development
• That parents will pay to have a child that is a clone of a famous athlete
• That cloned humans will have no personality

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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NGSS.HS-ETS1-3

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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NGSS.HS-ETS1-3

___________ changes the genetic material of a living organism.

• Crossbreeding 
• Genetic Modification 
• Bioremediation
• Genome

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NGSS.HS-LS3-2

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

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

The entire collection of genes within human cells is referred to as the ______.

• human genome
• karyotype
• pedigree
• gene map