natural selection and evalution

Fill in the blank: An organism with a beneficial variation lives longer and has more offspring

• natural selection

• artifical selection

• evalution

What is the process called when humans breed organisms for desired traits?

• Artificial selection

• Natural selection

• Genetic drift

• Mutation

Inherited traits change over time in a population. What is this process called?

• evolution

• photosynthesis

• respiration

• metamorphosis

Traits improving survival, such as camouflage and mimicry, are examples of what?

• Adaptation

• Mutation

• Extinction

• Migration

What is the process of animals producing babies called?

• Breeding

• Hibernation

• Migration

• Photosynthesis

The selection and breeding of organisms with desired traits is called ________.

• Selective breeding

• Natural selection

• Genetic drift

• Mutation

Which of the following is NOT a use of genetic engineering?

• Producing improvements in crops

• Making medicines and vaccines

• Changing the motion of the clouds

• Insulin production in bacteria

What is the first step in the process of genetic engineering in medicine?

• Isolate the plasmid

• Insert the gene of interest

• Grow the bacteria

• Extract the protein product

Which enzyme is used to cut the plasmid in genetic engineering?

• Restriction enzymes

• Ligase

• Polymerase

• Helicase

What is the purpose of forming recombinant DNA in genetic engineering?

• To join the human insulin gene into the opened bacterial plasmid, creating a recombinant DNA loop.

• To increase the mutation rate in bacteria for faster evolution.

• To prevent bacteria from replicating their DNA.

• To remove all genes from a bacterial plasmid.