Biotechnology

Which of these is NOT an example of Biotechnology?

• using a car for transportation

• creating oil eating bacteria to clean up oceans

• cloning of organs

• a vaccine

What does GMO stand for?

• Genetically Modified Organism

• General Mutations Organization

• Genetic Magnification Operation

• Government Manipulated Organisms

Breeding organisms for certain characteristics is called

• inbreeding

• selective breeding

• pure breed

• DNA copy

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Identifying a freeze resistant gene in a fish and placing it into a tomato plant is an example of

• hybridization

• inbreeding

• transgenic organisms

• genome

Which suspect likely committed the crime?

• suspect 1

• suspect 2

• suspect 3

• None of them

Breeding two dissimilar organisms to get the best characteristics of both is called

• hybridization

• selective breeding

• transgenic organisms

• recombinant breeding

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Which process separates segments of DNA based on its size and produces a DNA fingerprint

• Gel Electrophoresis

• Cloning

• Human Genome Project

• Hybridization

The purpose of the Human Genome Project was to

• Map out all of the genes in human DNA

• Combine human DNA with other organisms

• Create superhumans

The process in which an organism is genetically identical to its parent is known as

• Cloning

• Hybridization

• DNA fingerprinting

• Kayrotyping

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Recombinant DNA is

• any combination of DNA from 2 or more organisms

• used in the mapping of the human genome project

• the process of separating DNA based on size

• DNA which contains small fragments of RNA