Modern Genetics

Which of the following traits is encoded in your DNA?

• Your hair color

• Your personality

• Your intelligence

• Your likes and dislikes

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GMOs can be

• plants only

• animals only

• plant, animal, and bacteria

• plant and animal only

GMO stands for 

• Genetically modified organism

• Genetically made organism

• Generically made organ

• Generically modified organism

What is genetic engineering?

• Manipulation/addition of genes

• Naturally breeding two animals with desired traits

• Cross-pollinating two crops

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What is NOT a reason to genetically modify plants? 

• To make the plants poisonous to insects

• Make plants drought resistant 

• To produce fewer plants

• Improve the nutrition of food grown

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Clones have the exact same:

• Personalities

• Physical appearances

• Intelligence levels

• Genetic material

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Why would scientists want to clone cows?

• To produce more cows at a faster rate

• To produce adult cows instead of calves

• To have cows that produce milk with human proteins.

• To replace chickens and goats, which are harder to clone

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How might cloning eventually help humans live longer?

• Clones tend to live longer than the parent organism

• Cloned human organs could replace unhealthy ones

• By being cloned multiple times, a person could essentially live forever

• The food obtained from cloned organisms would be healthier than ordinary food

A nucleotide is made up of three parts:  which of these is NOT one of those parts?

• sugar

• phosphate

• amino acids

• base

__________________ is a change in the nucleotide base sequence of DNA.

• switch

• eraser

• creation

• mutation

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