Quizizz #28

 the codon UUC codes for which amino acid? 

• PHE
• GKY
• ILE
• GLN

How can a person's muscle cells have the same exact DNA sequences as their nerve cells even though the look and perform completely different?

• The two different cells become mutated
• The proteins expressed in each cell are different
• They actually have different DNA in the two types of cells.
• The genome of the different cells changes

Someone selects specific turkeys to breed in order to increase the meat that that the next generation of turkeys produce. This is_____.

• Gene Therapy

• Gene Modification

• Selective Breeding

• hybridization

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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In gene splicing, what is used to cut the DNA into fragments?

• A hormone

• an antibody

• A restriction enzyme

• RNA

The Aztecs and Maya Tribes of Mexico where some of the first humans to slowly change wild corn to the corn we know today. What process did these tribes use?

• Natural Selection

• Artificial Selection

• Mitosis

• adaptive radiation

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Which is true?

• Science has proven that all GMO foods are dangerous.

• Mutation never leads to changes which are beneficial to the organism.

• Both genetic engineering and selective breeding can occur in nature, without human action.

• Mutation, Selective Breeding, and Genetic Engineering all change DNA, either suddenly, or over time.

The diagram below represents a cell and some molecules in its environment. Which molecule would require the use of energy in order to be brought into the cell? 

• 1
• 2
• 3
• 4

after a zygote is formed, what happens next?

• meiosis
• mitosis
• differentiation
• fertilization

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Decomposers are necessary in a food chain because they

• manufacture food by photosynthesis
• return nutrients to the ecosystem
• absorb energy from the Sun
• Produce organic nutrients

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