Genetic Engineering Quiz

Biotech foods look and taste the same as traditional foods and crops. The only difference is that biotech food has

• fewer calories.
• the addition of specific minerals.
• genes with traits that improve something about the plant.
• a better chance of surviving a frost during the growing season.

What is plant biotechnology?

• Adding chemicals to foods to preserve them.
• Making synthetic foods using artificial, man-made proteins.
• Inserting a gene or genes with beneficial traits into a plant cell.
• Taking immature plants and adding steroids to make them grow bigger and stronger.

What are genetically modified (GM) organisms and GM foods?

• Foods or organisms with better taste
• Foods or organisms grown in the USA, only
• Foods or organisms with DNA modified in a way that doesn't occur naturally
• Food and organisms that have been injected with hormones

Putting the gene for bioluminescence into a fish is an example of...

• Genetic Engineering
• Selective Breeding
• Artificial Selection
• Gene Mutation

DNA can be spliced, in order to insert it in a different organism, using

• prescription enzymes
• digestive enzymes
• restriction enzymes
• transcription enzymes

When human DNA is inserted in bacterial DNA to create insulin it is called

• viral DNA
• bacterial DNA
• recombinant DNA
• transcribed DNA

Companies that create GMOs can patent genes and DNA sequences.

• True
• False

Advantages of genetically modified crops include(s)

• insect resistance
• drought/freeze resistance
• higher yield
• all of these are reasons for using GMOs

Concerns about genetically modified organisms include(s)

• risk to human health
• may be harmful to ecosystems
• seed/pollen drift to organic farms
• all of these are valid concerns

An argument in favor of food biotechnology is that it

• provides foods that cure viral diseases.

• provides more food to feed a growing population.

• provides a cash crop for low income nations.

• biotech foods are not controversial