GMO Vocab Review

Match the following

• selectively breeding two plants or animals

• a unit of heredity that is transferred from a parent to offspring and is held to determine some characteristic of the offspring

• any organism whose genetic material has

• genetic engineering:

• the process of directly modifying an org

• crossbreeding:

• gene

• a chemical substance which forms in starchy foods after high-temperature cooking processes such as frying, roasting, and baking

• acrylamide:

• genetically modified organism (GMO):

Match the following

• mutagenesis:

• selective breeding:

• inbreeding:

• selectively breeding closely related plants or animals in an effort to isolate and perpetuate a desired trait

• the offspring of two plants or animals o

• method of selective breeding in plants where seeds are exposed to chemicals or radiation to promote DNA mutations that could result in developing new traits in offspring plants

• process by which humans control the bree

• hybrid:

• transgenic:

• containing a gene that has been transferred from one organism to another and acts as a synonym for genetically modified