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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_________________ 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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Which of these has to do with genetic modification?

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

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A genome is

• part of a chromosome
• a gene inserted into a chromosome of bacteria
• a sequence of units in a short segment of DNA
• the complete sequence of an organism’s DNA  
  

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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___________ changes the genetic material of a living organism.

• Crossbreeding 
• Genetic Modification 
• Bioremediation
• Genome

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______________uses bacteria to clean up our surrounding.

• Genome
• Bioremediation 
• Genetic Modification 
• Crossbreeding 

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