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WorksheetsBT1 Unit 7
Total questions: 15
Worksheet time: 8mins
The average American consumes food products containing genetically engineered organisms:
Every day
Never
Once a week
Once a year
According to the North Carolina Biotech Center, what is the expected annual revenue from the biotechnology industry for the next 25 years?
Exceed $25 billion
Reach approximately $10 billion
reduce to only $500 million
surpass the annual income of tobacco
Which plant variety is the best example of a pest-resistant genetically modified organism (GMO)?
BC Potatoes
Bt Corn
FlabrSavor Tomatoes
Roundup Ready Corn
One of the best common biotechnology practices throughout history has been the conversion of sugars in fruits and grains to alcohol through the process of
Acidification
Fermentation
Insemination
Vinnification
GMO's are found:
In foods in certain states that have passed laws approving genetic engineering
in many of the substances people eat each day
in no animal or human food products
only in foods used for consumption by animals
Compared to Europe, the US:
is equal in production of Biotech crops
is slightly behind in biotechnology crops, but trending upward
produces less biotech crops
produces more biotech crops
Which best indicates the increased interest and controversy surrounding biotechnology research?
annual income from research stations
Californias $300 billion research referendum
Mendels research being contested
private corporation refusal to be involved
The creation of new enzymes that can slow bacterial growth are an example of the continued use of biotechnology to improve methods of:
Environmental Cleanup
Evaluation of food safety
Food preservation
Nutritional fortification
Gregor Mendel studied the inheritance of characteristics in pea plants to become the first scientist to describe the:
cellular composition of herbaceous leguminous plants
impact of beneficial organisms in integrated pest management.
impact of genetic engineering on crop production.
process of heredity and the field of genetics
Scientists have recently utilized a Bt gene occurring naturally in certain plants by inserting the gene in production crops to:
increase the growth rate of plants.
increase the productivity of crops in utilizing macronutrients
provide plants with a biological resistance to certain insects.
provide plants with a greater ability to adjust to environmental factors
Which is true of both the traditional cheese making method using certain varieties of mold and the more modern technique that creates new enzymes in labs?
both add nutritional value to food
both alter the chemical composition of substances
both clean the environment
both preserve food
Biotechnology first emerged in ancient efforts to produce what foods using yeast and bacteria?
Cheese and milk
Cheese and bread
Tea and yogurt
Wine and tea
Compared to 2002, the amount of biotechnology crop production worldwide in 2003:
increased by 2%
decreased by 7%
increased by 15%.
decreased by 17%
James Watson and Francis Crick first described what structure as having a double helix shape connected in the middle by nitrogenous bases that unzip during the process of replication?
DNA
Mitochondria
The nucleus
RNA
Which describes Paul Berg’s research to use recombinant DNA to combine the genetic material of two viruses?
not very useful as his experiment could not be repeated
of no real use in the field of production agriculture
conducted at Stanford University in the 1970’s
the first application of genetics in agriculture occurring in the 1950’s
