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Accelerated Biology Vocab: Biotechnology

Total questions: 20

Worksheet time: 16mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What is the manipulation of organisms or their components to make useful products?

a)

Genetic Engineering

b)

Mutation

c)

Biotechnology

d)

Recombinant DNA

2.

What is the manipulation of genes for practical purposes?

a)

Genetic Engineering

b)

Genetic Manipulation

c)

Genetic Modification

d)

GMOs

3.

What is recombinant DNA?

a)

DNA used in a plasmid

b)

Combined DNA from 2 different sources

c)

Genetically modified DNA

d)

DNA used in biotechnology

4.

What is a plasmid?

a)

Circular piece of DNA found in bacteria

b)

A chromosome in bacteria

c)

DNA found in bacteria

d)

DNA that is genetically modified

5.

What enzyme cuts DNA at specific sequences of nucleotides?

a)

Reconstruction Enzyme

b)

DNA Ligase

c)

Sticky Ends

d)

Restriction Enzyme

6.

What are the uneven ends of a double-stranded DNA?

a)

Blunt Ends

b)

Sticky Ends

c)

Uneven Ends

d)

Plasmid Ends

7.

What is a method for separating DNA fragments by size?

a)

DNA Measuring

b)

Gene Cloning

c)

Gel Electrophoresis

d)

Genetic Engineering

8.

What enzyme repairs breaks in the sugar-phosphate backbone of DNA?

a)

DNA Ligase

b)

Restriction Enzyme

c)

DNA Polymerase

d)

Helicase

9.

What is a method for making several copies of a piece of DNA?

a)

DNA Replication

b)

Recombinant DNA

c)

Polymerase Chain Reaction

d)

Gel Electrophoresis

10.

What is a method for transferring DNA into a cell?

a)

Transgenic Organism

b)

Recombinant DNA

c)

Genetic Engineering

d)

Transformation

11.

What is the point of transformation?

a)

To create DNA with practical purposes.

b)

To allow a cell to use transferred DNA.

c)

To make GMOs.

d)

To clone organisms and DNA.

12.

What gene distinguishes bacteria that carries plasmids from ones that do not?

a)

Plasmid

b)

Restriction Gene

c)

Gene Marker

d)

Plasmid Marker

13.

What gene allows bacteria to survive when exposed to an antibiotic?

a)

Antibiotic Resistance Gene

b)

Resistance Gene

c)

Gene Marker

d)

Antibiotic Selector Gene

14.

What is a method where bacteria are grown so that bacteria without an antibiotic resistance gene are killed?

a)

Artificial Selection

b)

Polymerase Chain Reaction

c)

Gel Electrophoresis

d)

Antibiotic Selection

15.

What is a method of transferring a gene into a plasmid?

a)

Gene Cloning

b)

Transformation

c)

Plasmid Cloning

d)

DNA Transfer

16.

What is an organism that carries a gene from a different organism?

a)

Genetically Modified Organism

b)

Transgenic Organism

c)

Cloned Organism

d)

Recombinant Organism

17.

What is a cell that can become any cell type?

a)

Germ Cell

b)

Recombinant Cell

c)

Stem Cell

d)

Somatic Cell

18.

What is cloning an organism?

a)

The process of producing an exact genetic copy of an organism.

b)

The process of adding an organism's genetics into another organism.

c)

The process of cloning an organism's DNA.

d)

The process of gaining an organism's exact DNA.

19.

What is genetically modified food?

a)

Food made from cloned organisms.

b)

Food that has had it's DNA modified.

c)

Food made from transgenic organisms.

d)

Food made using stem cells.

20.

What is the process of placing a working copy of gene in the presence of a defective gene.

a)

Genetic Engineering

b)

Chemotherapy

c)

Genetic Marking

d)

Gene Therapy