09 Vocab - Genetic Engineering

Enzyme that cuts DNA at a sequence of nucleotides

• restriction enzyme
• Transgenic
• recombinant DNA
• scissors

Procedure used to separate and analyze DNA fragments by placing a mixture of DNA fragments at one end of a porous gel and applying an electrical voltage to the gel

• gel electrophoresis
• selective breeding
• hybridization
• blood typing

Small ring of bacterial DNA

• plasmid
• chromosome
• XX/XY
• prokaryote

DNA produced by combining DNA from different sources

• recombinant DNA
• transgenic organism
• gel electrophoresis
• mutation

Member of a population of genetically identical cells produced from a single cell (Dolly the sheep is our most famous example)

• clone

• transgenic organism

• hybridization

• fraternal twin

Technique to make many copies of a particular gene

• Polymerase chain reaction (PCR)
• plasmid
• DNA polymerase
• restriction enzyme

Process of changing a gene to treat a medical disease or disorder. An absent or faulty gene is replaced by a normal working gene

• gene therapy
• inbreeding
• seek an destroy missile but for genes
• mutation

Its main goals were to sequence all 3.3 billion base pairs in humans and map the location of all human genes

• Human Genome Project
• gel electrophoresis
• Human Gnome Projection
• gene therapy

Using biotechnology to place 1 specific gene fron one organism into another organism (ie putting a glow gene from a jellyfish into a mouse)

• Genetic engineering
• plasmid
• gene testing
• inbreeding

An organism containing recombinant DNA from different species

• Transgenic
• restriction enzyme
• plasmid
• a norma, non-glowing mouse