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65 Cards in this Set
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Bio means ______.
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Life
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An example of 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 studt of heredity was ________.
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Gregor Johann Mendel
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The genetic code of life is ______.
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DNA
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Adenine, Guanine, Cytosine, and Thymine are all ______.
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Bases
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Recombinant DNA technology is also known as _______.
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Gene splicing
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Genetic engineering can be done to change ___________.
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Animals, microorganisms, and plants
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Important contribution to biotechnology to waste management is _________.
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Bacteria that consume oil
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Chemical pollutants in water that may be decomposed or deactivated by bacteria include _________.
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PCBs
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Used to make alcoholic beverages
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Fruits and grains
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Causes bread to rise
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Yeast
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Fermented grains or grasses
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Silage
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Heredity
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Genetics
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DNA and bases
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Genes
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Bio means ______.
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Life
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An example of 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 studt of heredity was ________.
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Gregor Johann Mendel
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The genetic code of life is ______.
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DNA
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Adenine, Guanine, Cytosine, and Thymine are all ______.
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Bases
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Recombinant DNA technology is also known as _______.
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Gene splicing
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Genetic engineering can be done to change ___________.
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Animals, microorganisms, and plants
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Important contribution to biotechnology to waste management is _________.
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Bacteria that consume oil
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Chemical pollutants in water that may be decomposed or deactivated by bacteria include _________.
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PCBs
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Used to make alcoholic beverages
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Fruits and grains
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Causes bread to rise
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Yeast
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Fermented grains or grasses
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Silage
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Heredity
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Genetics
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DNA and bases
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Genes
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Result of dominant gene
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Tall pea plants
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Deoxyribonucleic acid
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DNA
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Embryo
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Fertilized cell
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Controls blood sugar levels
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Insulin
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Makes "marked" bacteria turn blue
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X-Gal
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Life or living
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Bio
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To pick the best plant or animals for producing the next generation
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Improvement by selection
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The selection of parents to get desirable characteristics in the offspring
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Selective breeding
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The biology of heredity
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Genetics
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The transmission of characteristics from an organism to an offspring through genes in reproductive cells
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Heredity
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Components of cells which determine the individual characteristics of living things; are comprised of DNA
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Genes
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The offspring of common parents
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Generation
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The offspring
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Progeny
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The coded material in a cell; also called DNA
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Deoxyribonucleic acid
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An exact duplicate of something
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Clone
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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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A slightly acid substance the nuclei of all cells contain; DNA
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Nucleic acid
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Chemicals that connect pairs of strands of DNA together
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Bases
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Bases of DNA known as "A"
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Adenine
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Bases of DNA known as "G"
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Guanine
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Bases of DNA known as "C"
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Cytosine
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Bases of DNA known as "T"
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Thymine
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The process of identifying the location of a specific gene on a chromosome
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Mapping
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The process of removing and inserting genes into DNA
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Gene Splicing/Recominant 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 compound that turns genetically enginerred bacteria into a shade of blue to easily detect and trace
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X-Gal
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A hormone that is used in the stimulation of increased milk production in cows
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Bovine somatotropin (BST)
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An animal hormone that increased meat production in swine
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Porcine somatotropin (PST)
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The chemical used by people to control their blood sugar levels
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Insulin
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A scientist in the 1800s that worked with peas to manipulate genes
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Gregor Johann Mendel
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Science through modifying genetic traits that include genetic engineering, genetic enhancements
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Biotechnology
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Name five purposes of biotechnology
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1. Modify and improve plants, animals, and microorganisms
2. Improve health 3. Fight diseases 4. Protect environment 5. Fight hunger |
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What substance was first made by a genetically enhanced bacteria to control blood sugar levels?
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Insulin
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List four benefits from biotechnology?
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1. Provides higher nutritional ingredients and human health
2. Controls animal diseases 3. Increases yield and less soil erosion 4. High quality crops (resistance through chemicals from diseases, weather, pests) |
