8.L.2.1 Biotechnology Quiz

What is biotechnology?

• The study of life and living beings

• The scientific study of plants

• Technology that uses biological systems or organisms to make a product

• the science or practice of farming, including cultivation of soil for growing crops

The act of taming an animal to be used for food or as a pet

• Transgenic

• Domesticating

• Dominating

• Genetically Modifying Organisms

What is DNA?

• An exact genetic copy of an organism

• Basic unity of heredity passed form parent to child

• The smallest structural and functional unit of living organism

• The genetic coding of an organism

Which of these is a benefit of genetically modifying organisms?

• It can increase the crops' resistance to diseases

• It will decrease the price of the crops

• It will intrigue consumers and cause them to by more

• It will cause the plant to become carnivorous and therefor eat pests

This is a hormone that controls the amount of sugar in your blood

• Chromosome

• DNA

• Virus

• Insulin

What is selective breeding?

• A process to create an organism with desired traits from parents with those desired traits

• A natural way of producing offsprings with desired traits

• Configuring a hybrid species by breeding two different animals

• Transferring genes from one organism to another to get desired traits

A molecule made up of amino acids

• Genes

• Proteins

• Insulin

• Bacteria

Referring to people’s moral values or principles that determine what's right or wrong

• Bioremediation

• Etiquette

• Ethics

• Economy

A genetically engineered organism that contains a new gene from a different organism is called

• Microbial

• A GMO

• Transgenic

• Multigenic

If scientists alter the DNA of tomatoes to make them survive in colder weather, what type of biotechnology do those tomatoes become?

• Transgenic

• GMOs

• Vegetables

• Selectively bred