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45 Cards in this Set
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Life or Living
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Bio
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Picking the best plants or animals for producing the next generation
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Improvement by Selection
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Selection of parent to get desirable characteristics in the offspring
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Selective Breeding
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The transmission of characteristics from an organism to its offspring through genes in reproductive cells
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Heredity
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Biology of heredity
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Genetics
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Components of cells which determine the individual characteristics of living things
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Genes
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The offspring of common parents
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Generation
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Offspring
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Progeny
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Deoxyribonucleic acid
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DNA
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An exact duplicate of something
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Clone
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Refers to the movement of genetic information in the form of genes from one cell to another
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Genetic Engineering
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The hereditary information is stored and from which it can be transferred
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Nucleic Acid
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DNA occurs in pairs of strands intertwined with each other and connected by chemicals
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Bases
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A component of DNA represented by A
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Adenine
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A component of DNA represented by G
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Guanine
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A component of DNA represented by C
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Cytosine
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A component of DNA represented by T
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Thymine
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The process of identifying the location of a specific gene on chromosome
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Mapping
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The process of removing and inserting genes into DNA
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Gene Splitting
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Gene Splitting
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Recombinant DNA Technology
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The process of finding and recording the location of genes
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Gene Mapping
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Bacteria that were genetically altered to retard frost formation on plant leaves
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Ice Minus
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A brilliant shade of blue in the presence of a compound
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X-Gal
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Stimulation of increased milk production in cows
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Bovine Somatotropin (BST)
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Increases meat production in swine
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Porcine Somatotropin (PST)
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The chemical used by people with diabetes to control their blood sugar levels
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Insulin
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Bio means _______.
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Life
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An example of a fermented food is _______.
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Cheese
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The earliest method of livestock improvement was probably by ________.
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Selection
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The person providing the foundation for scientific study of heredity was _______.
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Gregor Johann Mendel
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A component of DNA represented by C
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Cytosine
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A component of DNA represented by T
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Thymine
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The process of identifying the location of a specific gene on chromosome
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Mapping
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The process of removing and inserting genes into DNA
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Gene Splitting
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Gene Splitting
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Recombinant DNA Technology
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The process of finding and recording the location of genes
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Gene Mapping
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Bacteria that were genetically altered to retard frost formation on plant leaves
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Ice Minus
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A brilliant shade of blue in the presence of a compound
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X-Gal
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Stimulation of increased milk production in cows
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Bovine Somatotropin (BST)
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Increases meat production in swine
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Porcine Somatotropin (PST)
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The chemical used by people with diabetes to control their blood sugar levels
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Insulin
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Bio means _______.
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Life
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An example of a fermented food is _______.
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Cheese
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The earliest method of livestock improvement was probably by ________.
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Selection
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The person providing the foundation for scientific study of heredity was _______.
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Gregor Johann Mendel
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