Biotechnology

Which field would most likely NOT incorporate  biotechnology?

• Agriculture 
• Genetics 
• Medicine
• Mining 

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

Which of the following subjects would someone  most likely study if he or she wanted to work in  the biotechnology field?

• Chemistry 
• Genetics
• Physics 
• Environmental Science 

What is involved in creating genetically modified bacteria?

• allowing them to reproduce freely
• changing their food source
• using biotechnology techniques
• growing them on selected plants

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

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  
  

___________ changes the genetic material of a living organism.

• Crossbreeding 
• Genetic Modification 
• Bioremediation
• Genome

An application of using DNA technology to help environmental scientists would be ___.

• use PCR to analyze DNA at a crime scene
• create a tobacco plant that glows in the dark
• clone the gene for human growth hormone to treat pituitary dwarfism
• make transgenic bacteria that can be used to clean up oil spills more quickly than do the natural bacteria

The Human Genome Project has made diagnosing genetic disorders easier.Once a genetic disorder is diagnosed, ____ can be used as a possible treatment.

• cell cultures
• gene therapy
• DNA fingerprinting
• PCR