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Applied Genetics Review

Authored by Lisa Thompson

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12th Grade

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Applied Genetics Review
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1.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

What is Genetic variation?

The difference in the DNA among members of a species.

Are features that are visible when you look at an animal. E.g. Aberdeen angus cattle are polled (hornless)

The process by which humans breed plants or animals with desirable traits and concentrate on those desirable traits in the offspring

Involves the manipulation of hereditary characteristics in order to improve or produce desirable characteristics in offspring.

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NGSS.HS-LS3-2

NGSS.HS-LS3-1

NGSS.HS-LS4-2

2.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

What is Selective breeding ?

The difference in the DNA among members of a species.

Are features that are visible when you look at an animal. E.g. Aberdeen angus cattle are polled (hornless)

The process by which humans breed plants or animals with desirable traits and concentrate on those desirable traits in the offspring

Involves the manipulation of hereditary characteristics in order to improve or produce desirable characteristics in offspring.

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NGSS.HS-LS3-2

3.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

What is Applied genetics?

The difference in the DNA among members of a species.

Are features that are visible when you look at an animal. E.g. Aberdeen angus cattle are polled (hornless)

The process by which humans breed plants or animals with desirable traits and concentrate on those desirable traits in the offspring

Involves the manipulation of hereditary characteristics in order to improve or produce desirable characteristics in offspring.

4.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

What is genotyping?

The evaluation of a bull’s performance by comparing its weight gain and FCR with other bulls kept under similar feed and housing conditions.

The evaluation of the performance of a bull’s offspring compared to other bulls’ offspring under similar feed and housing conditions.

Study of an animals DNA

Is the process of identifying differences in the genetic make-up (genotype) of an animal by examining the animals DNA sequence and comparing to other animals

5.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

Scientific study of heredity

Genetics

Heredity

Anatomy

Biology

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NGSS.HS-LS3-1

6.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

Which is an application of genetic engineering?

destroying all bacteria

creating synthetic insulin

producing cells from nonliving material

preventing weeds from spreading to farmland

7.

FILL IN THE BLANK QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

A complex molecule (double helix - “twisted staircase”) that carries the code for organisms’ traits, which is passed on from generation to generation.

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NGSS.HS-LS3-1

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