Transgenic Vocabulary Part 1

Which of the following is true of transgenic organisms?

• Transgenic organisms have genes from a different species

• Transgenic organisms have genes from their same species

Manipulating a living organism to solve a problem or make a product

• Ethics

• Genetic Modification

• Biotechnology

• Cloning

Any organism that has had its DNA altered in a lab is referred to as a ....

• Cultured Tissue

• Clone

• Mutant

• Genetically Modified Organism

Scaffold is

• the first step to building a new heart

• the first step to building a new organ using regenerative medicine

• describes all DNA

• genetically modified organisms

Stem cell research involves

• are biological cells that can differentiate into other types of cells and can divide to produce more of the same type of stem cells

• the illegal use of cells to create new hair, new bone material, new blood, or new tissues

• is only used in cancer patients

• can not be used in adults

Human genome project is

• a national project to identify and map genes

• is being used to identify and map all genes in the human genome

• was stopped due to ethical considerations

• is unsuccessful

Somatic stem cells

• are only found in chickens

• are adult stem cells

• do not come from fully developed human being

• are part of radiation therapy

Pluripotent cells

• are not used in biomedical research

• can not be reprogrammed adult cells

• can give rise to all of the cell types that make up the body and includes embryonic stem cells

• are unable to reproduce

Embryonic stem cells

• stem cells derived from the undifferentiated inner mass cells of a human embryo.

• can not be made into muscles or bones

• are not types of stem cells

• do not exist