Gene Technology

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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Putting the gene for bioluminescence into a fish is an example of...

• Genetic Engineering
• Selective Breeding
• Artificial Selection
• Gene Mutation

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What is a genome?

• The complete set of DNA for an organism (human).

• A garden ornament

• The sum of all human material.

• A totally unique set of genetic material not shared with anything else

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Evidence shows that the gray wolf is the ancestor to all of the breeds of dogs shown below. How did this variation arise in a relatively short period of time?

• Random Selection

• Natural selection

• Random chance

• Selective breeding

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When humans breed 2 organisms with specific traits to influence the traits of the next generation, it is __________.

• selective breeding

• cloning

• genetic engineering

• mutation

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NGSS.HS-LS3-1

Genes are found on

• ribosomes
• Chromosomes
• lysosomes
• endoplasmic reticulum

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Organisms which are genetically identical to each other are known as.

• Offspring

• Two daughter cells

• Duplicates

• Clones

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Any change (error) in the sequence of DNA is...

• transgenic shift

• Genotype

• Trait

• Mutation

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Which sequence of COMPLEMENTARY DNA bases would pair with this partial strand

ATG TGA CAG?

• ATG TGA CAG

• TAC ACT GTC

• GTA AGT GAC

• CAT TCA CTG

What mutation has occurred here? 
T-G-A-C-C-A
T-G-A-G-C-A

• Substitution
• Deletion
• Insertion
• Frameshift 

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