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Which technology process allows a scientist to make more of the DNA he has in a test tube?
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PCR
(Polymerase chain reactions) |
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Which process cuts DNA into fragments?
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Cutting DNA with restriction endonucleases. making RFLPs
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Which process allows you to examine DNA "finger prints"?
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Electrophoresis
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Why would cloning be a good thing in the scientists mind? (2 reasons)
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To make more of a particular organism or more of a product from a particular organism as in the production of insulin by bacteria.
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Why would a scientist want to make a mouse that got cancer?
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This organism is in fact sold by research institutes to test different cancer cures.
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What process would allow you to sequence the DNA of an individual?
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Electrophoresis with radioactive probes for the A, T, C, and G nitrogen bases.
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What are some of the Plant transgenics that are in use?
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Tomatoes, Corn, soy beans.
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What are some of the animal transgenics that are in use?
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goats, cows
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What are some of the vectors used to get new DNA into organisms?
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Bacteria, viruses and stem cells.
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The earliest thoughts on organism stability were constructed by?
a. Aristotle b. Darwin c. Wallace d. Lamarch e. both b and c |
a. Aristotle
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The individual(s) that gave us the theory of "Acquired Characteristics" was?
a. Aristotle b. Darwin c. Wallace d. Lamarch e. both b and c |
d. Lamarch
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The individual that actually published the theory of "natural selection"?
a. Aristotle b. Darwin c. Wallace d. Lamarch e. both b and c |
b. Darwin
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Which of the following showed early (1800) theorist that some modification through time had taken place?
a. Fossil Record b. Biochemistry c. Embryology d. Contolled experiments |
a. Fossil Record
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Which category demonstrates on the position played by DNA?
a. Fossil Record b. Biochemistry c. Embryology d. Contolled experiments |
b. Biochemistry
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Darwin's theory had all of the following except which?
a. variation b. overpopulation c. embryology d. fittest survive to produce |
c. Embryology
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Which category reflects the close relation in vertebrates?
a. variation b. overpopulation c. embryology d. fittest survive to produce |
c. Embryology
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The wings of birds and the wings of dragon flies are said to be?
a. analogous b. homologous c.divergent d. vestigial e. both b and d |
a. Analogous
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The flippers of whales and the wings of bats are said to be?
a. analogous b. homologous c.divergent d. vestigial e. both b and d |
b. homologous
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Organism's parts that are none functioning fall into which?
a. analogous b. homologous c.divergent d. vestigial e. both b and d |
c. divergent
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The equalibrium of a gene frequency can be kept constant if which of the following are done within the population?
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e. All of these
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Which of persons gave us the equalibrium equation for a population?
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d. Hardy and Weinberg
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Who gave us the theory of natural selection?
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a. Darwin
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Which is defined as the immigration or emigration of organisms genes from a gene pool?
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b. Gene flow
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Which is the chance happening that a individual's genes will be eliminated from the gene pool?
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a. Gentic Drift
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Which is a permanent change in DNA?
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d. Mutation
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Which is a example of gentic drift?
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c. both
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Which is usally a result of some catastrophe?
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b. Bottlenecking
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If in a population of butterflies, the color can be either red or oranges, and red is dominant to orange, and most of the population is showing orange not red, which of the following selections is exhibited?
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a. Directional
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Which shows eqaul numbers of both the red and the orange colors in the population?
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a. Directional
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