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WorksheetsAccelerated Biology Vocab: Biotechnology
Total questions: 20
Worksheet time: 16mins
What is the manipulation of organisms or their components to make useful products?
Genetic Engineering
Mutation
Biotechnology
Recombinant DNA
What is the manipulation of genes for practical purposes?
Genetic Engineering
Genetic Manipulation
Genetic Modification
GMOs
What is recombinant DNA?
DNA used in a plasmid
Combined DNA from 2 different sources
Genetically modified DNA
DNA used in biotechnology
What is a plasmid?
Circular piece of DNA found in bacteria
A chromosome in bacteria
DNA found in bacteria
DNA that is genetically modified
What enzyme cuts DNA at specific sequences of nucleotides?
Reconstruction Enzyme
DNA Ligase
Sticky Ends
Restriction Enzyme
What are the uneven ends of a double-stranded DNA?
Blunt Ends
Sticky Ends
Uneven Ends
Plasmid Ends
What is a method for separating DNA fragments by size?
DNA Measuring
Gene Cloning
Gel Electrophoresis
Genetic Engineering
What enzyme repairs breaks in the sugar-phosphate backbone of DNA?
DNA Ligase
Restriction Enzyme
DNA Polymerase
Helicase
What is a method for making several copies of a piece of DNA?
DNA Replication
Recombinant DNA
Polymerase Chain Reaction
Gel Electrophoresis
What is a method for transferring DNA into a cell?
Transgenic Organism
Recombinant DNA
Genetic Engineering
Transformation
What is the point of transformation?
To create DNA with practical purposes.
To allow a cell to use transferred DNA.
To make GMOs.
To clone organisms and DNA.
What gene distinguishes bacteria that carries plasmids from ones that do not?
Plasmid
Restriction Gene
Gene Marker
Plasmid Marker
What gene allows bacteria to survive when exposed to an antibiotic?
Antibiotic Resistance Gene
Resistance Gene
Gene Marker
Antibiotic Selector Gene
What is a method where bacteria are grown so that bacteria without an antibiotic resistance gene are killed?
Artificial Selection
Polymerase Chain Reaction
Gel Electrophoresis
Antibiotic Selection
What is a method of transferring a gene into a plasmid?
Gene Cloning
Transformation
Plasmid Cloning
DNA Transfer
What is an organism that carries a gene from a different organism?
Genetically Modified Organism
Transgenic Organism
Cloned Organism
Recombinant Organism
What is a cell that can become any cell type?
Germ Cell
Recombinant Cell
Stem Cell
Somatic Cell
What is cloning an organism?
The process of producing an exact genetic copy of an organism.
The process of adding an organism's genetics into another organism.
The process of cloning an organism's DNA.
The process of gaining an organism's exact DNA.
What is genetically modified food?
Food made from cloned organisms.
Food that has had it's DNA modified.
Food made from transgenic organisms.
Food made using stem cells.
What is the process of placing a working copy of gene in the presence of a defective gene.
Genetic Engineering
Chemotherapy
Genetic Marking
Gene Therapy
