biotechnology easy vocab

What has the benefits of decreased pesticide, decreased pollution, increased nutrition, & increased production for agriculture

Genetically modified food (or GM food) is food produced from plants or animals whose DNA has been altered through genetic engineering.

• True

• False

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Which is a potential ethical issue resulting from the use of biotechnology?

• deteriorating the ozone layer

• causing mass extinction of a species

• increasing pollution of natural resources

• introducing a genetically-altered species

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If scientists engineer the DNA of tomatoes to make them survive in cold temperatures, what do type of technology do those tomatoes become?

• Human Genome Project

• Genetically Modified Organisms

• Punnett Squares

• Gene Therapy

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This laboratory procedure is known as

• CLONING

• gel electrophoresis

• chromatography

• use of a dichotomous key

Which suspect is likely guilty?

• Suspect #1
• Suspect #2
• Suspect #3

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An organism whose genetic characteristics have been altered by the insertion of a modified gene or a gene from another organism using the techniques of genetic engineering.

• Bioremediation

• Genetic Engineering

• Genetic Modification

• Transgenic Organisms

The process of asexually producing a cell, group of cells, or organism that is produced asexually from and is genetically identical to a single ancestor.

• Genetic Modification

• Genetic Engineering

• Cloning

• Bioremediation

The discipline dealing with what is good and bad and with moral duty and obligation.

• Biotechnology

• Ethics

• Genetic Engineering

• Bioremediation

What type of job could a person who studies biotechnology in college have? (check all that apply)

• Create new medicines and vaccines

• Create disease/pest resistant crop varieties

• Work in a forensic lab testing crime scene evidence

• Create environmentally friendly ways to clean up pollution

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