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WorksheetsBiotechnology - Pedigree
Total questions: 14
Worksheet time: 26mins
Name
Class
Date
1.
What does a filled in square represent?
a)
Not affected Female
b)
Not affected Male
c)
Affected Male
d)
Affected Female
2.
How many generations are shown in this pedigree?
a)
1
b)
2
c)
3
d)
4
3.
How are individuals III-2 and II-4 related?
a)
Cousins
b)
Dad and Daughter
c)
Uncle and Niece
d)
Grandpa and Granddaughter
4.
How many kids did the mother and father from the first generation have?
a)
2
b)
4
c)
5
d)
6
5.
What does an open circle represent?
a)
Not Affected Male
b)
Not Affected Female
c)
Affected Male
d)
Affected Female
6.
What do half colored symbols represent?
a)
The individual is a carrier (heterozygous).
b)
The individual expresses the trait.
c)
The individual has both recessive alleles.
d)
The individual has both dominant alleles.
7.
What is this?
a)
Pedigree
b)
Karyotype
c)
Venn diagram
d)
Punnett Square
8.
What can you conclude from the fact that humans have cloned plants for thousands of years?
a)
Most of the crops that exist today are clones
b)
Cloning plants is much easier than cloning animals
c)
Cloned plants are immune to all diseases and pests
d)
Much of today's modern technology was developed in ancient times
9.
Someone has a wild cat breed with a house cat in order to have a cat that looks wild but is more gentle. This is__.
a)
Genetic Modification
b)
Gene Therapy
c)
Animal Husbandry
d)
Selective breeding
10.
Clones have the exact same:
a)
Personalities
b)
Physical appearances
c)
Intelligence levels
d)
Genetic material
11.
Which term refers to a farmer choosing the best corn from this year to plant next year?
a)
natural selection
b)
selective breeding
c)
genetic engineering
d)
genetic transformation
12.
When DNA is manipulated and moved from one source to another it is known as
a)
genetic engineering
b)
electrophoresis
c)
gene therapy
d)
GMO
13.
Which of the following subjects would someone most likely study if he or she wanted to work in the biotechnology field?
a)
Chemistry
b)
Genetics
c)
Physics
d)
Environmental Science
14.
Glo fish are made by adding the GPF gene from jelly fish into the DNA of a tetra fish. This is an example of what type of Biotechnology?
a)
selective breeding
b)
cloning
c)
genetic engineering
d)
genetic transformation
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