Biotechnology

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 

_________________ 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 of the following careers would a student studying biotechnology most likely pursue?

• electrical Engineering 
• Astronomy 
• Agricultural research 
• Geology 

Tigers and households cats are members of the same family; however, their sizes are vastly different. What is the cause of this difference?

• Biochemical makeup 
• genetics
• behavioral makeup 
• habitat size

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

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

___________ changes the genetic material of a living organism.

• Crossbreeding 
• Genetic Modification 
• Bioremediation
• Genome