HACKING DARWIN

How do gene mutations contribute to evolution?

• Beneficial mutations are passed on to several members of a generation, quickly taking hold in a population.

• Unfavorable mutations have a more significant effect on genes than do favorable mutations, so they are spread through the population.

• Natural selection favors beneficial mutations, so they survive and are passed on to future generations.

• Beneficial and unfavorable mutations take hold in the population equally over numerous generations.

Twins who share a certain physical or behavioral trait are ___ for that trait.

• discordant

• monozygotic

• dizygotic

• concordant

An organism with DNA from a different species is called ___.

• Transgenic

• Plasmid

• Recombinant

• Bacterial

which one of these is a example of GMO ?

• corn

• soy

• canola

• all of the above

What is the third stage of genetic engineering?

• Organism replicates = more have the desired gene

• The gene is cut from the DNA using enzymes and is isolated

• The gene that produces the wanted charactersitic is selected

• The useful DNA is inserted into the DNA of another organism

Which of the following is not a kind of genetic modification?

• Domesticating plants

• Domesticating animals

• Cloning a sheep

• Grafting trees

Golden rice was engineered to be a source of which vitamin?

• Vitamin B

• Vitamin A

• Vitamin C

• Vitamin D

Using CRISPR AND TALENS [gene editing technology], what traits will be allowed to be altered using DNA technology?

• eye color, hair color, disease resistance

• eye color and hair color

• intelligence

• personality

Who is known as father of genetics?

• Gregor Mendel

• Augustinian friar

• Norman Borlaug

• M.S Swaminathan

Who proposed the theory of natural selection?

• Charles Manson

• Charles Babbage

• Charles Darwin

• Charles Schwab