Gene Engineering

Two selective breeding techniques are?

• Cloning and Genetic Engineering
• Cloning and Inbreeding
• Inbreeding and Genetic Engineering
• Inbreeding and Hybridization

In the process of ________, breeders cross two genetically different individuals

• inbreeding
• cloning
• PCR
• hybridization

Which term refers to a farmer choosing the best corn from this year to plant next year?

• natural selection
• selective breeding
• genetic engineering
• genetic transformation

Problems with selective breeding such as inbreeding include

• Better animals
• More Meat
• Animals can have health problems
• more diversity

Organisms that posses more than two complete sets of chromosomes are said to be

• hybrids
• polyploid
• haploid
• diploid

What is Genetic Engineering?

• the manipulation of an organism’s genes
• a change in an organism's genes
• a random and abrupt disruption to DNA
• the manipulation of an organism's appearance

Humans have experimented with genetic engineering ________.

• a long time
• only recently
• only in science fiction novels

Making changes in the DNA of an organism is

• selective breeding
• artificial selection
• genetic engineering
• genetic transformation

What percent of corn is genetically engineered in the United States?

• 10%
• 34%
• 88%
• 100%

The cloned animal looks like the

• egg donor
• nucleus donor
• host mother
• all of the above

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