Biotechnology: Principles and Processes Flashcards
_______ deals with techniques of using live organism or enzymes from organism to produce products and processes useful to humans
Biotechnology
Techniques to alter chemistry of genetic material in order to change the phenotype to host organism are a part of _______ engineering
genetic
The two core techniques that enabled birth to modern biotechnology are :
Genetic and bioprocess engineering
Maintenance of sterile environment in chemical engineering processes to enable growth of desired organism in large quantities for manufacture of biotechnological products is called:
bioprocess engineering
The type of reproduction which permits variation is :
sexual reproduction
The type of reproduction which preserves genetic information is:
asexual reproducton
The techniques of genetic engineering which include creation of _______ use of ______ and ______, allows us to isolate and introduce only one or a set of desirable genes without introducing undesirable genes into the target organism
Recombinant DNA, gene cloning, gene transfer
The process of making multiple identical copies of any template DNA is called :
Cloning
The specific DNA sequence of chromosome responsible for initiating DNA replication is :
Origin of replication
First recombinant DNA was constructed in 1972 by ______ and ______
Stanley Cohen; Herbert Boyer
An autonomously replicating circular extra-chromosomal DNA of bacteria is called :
PLasmid
First recombinant DNA was constructed by linking a gene encoding antibiotic resistance with native plasmid of :
Salmonella typhimurium
Restriction enzymes are also known as :
Molecular scissors
The cutting of DNA at specific locations is done with the help of :
restriction enzymes
In genetic engineering, plasmid DNA act as ______ to transfer the piece of DNA linked to it into host organism
vector
The linking of antibiotic resistance gene with the plasmid vector became possible with the enzyme _____
DNA ligase
Replication of recombinant DNA in host is accomplished by using which enzymes of host?
DNA polymerase
Key tools of genetic engineering are:
Restriction enzymes, polymerase, ligase, vetor and host organism
The first restriction endonuclease that was found to cut DNA at specific sequence was-
Hind II
The specific base sequence recognised by restriction endonuclease to cut the DNA is called:
recognition sequence
Restriction enzyme Escherichia coli
RY 13 is written as:
EcoRI
While naming restriction enzymes, the order in which enzyme was isolated from the strain of bacteria is indicated by:
roman numbers
Restriction enzymes belong to which class of enzymes?
nucleases
Nucleases which remove nucleotide from the ends of DNA are called:
exonucleases
Nucleases which make cuts at specific position within DNA re called:
endonucleases
The sequence recognised by restriction endonuclease to cut the strand in DNA is:
palindromic nucleotide sequence
The sequence of base pairs that reads same on the two strands when orientation of reading is kept same is called :
Palindrome
The overhanging stretches or single stranded portion left at the end by restriction enzymes are called:
sticky ends
The stickiness of sticky ends facilitates the action of enzyme _____ on them
DNA ligase
Source DNA and ______ are need to be cut with same restriction enzyme, in order to create a recombinant molecule
vector
The fragments of DNA can be separated by a technique known as:
Gel electrophoresis
The charge on DNA molecules is :
negative
Most commonly used gel matrix for electrophoresis is:
agarose
Agarose is extracted from:
sea weeds
DNA fragments in agarose gel separate through sieving effect according to their:
size
During separation, agarose gel provides ______ effect
sieving
Compound used to visualise separated DNA fragments in agarose gel is:
ethidium bromide
Ethidium bromide is visible when gel is exposed to:
UV light
The process of cutting out and extracting separated bands of DNA from gel is called:
Elution
Bacteriophage have very ______ copy numbers of thier genome within bacterial cells
high
The sequence from where replication starts is called:
Origin of replication(ori)
Copy number of the linked DNA is under control of which sequence?
ori
_____ helps in identifying and eliminating non - transformants and selectively permitting the growth of the transformants?
selectable marker
The process through which a piece of DNA is introduced in a host bacterium is called:
Transformation
Genes encoding resistance to ____ are considered useful selectable markers
antibiotics
Name some antibiotic genes useful as selectable marker for E. coli.
Ampicillin, chloramphenicol, tetracycline, kanamycin
During cloning, the ligation of alien DNA is carried out at a restriction site present in ______ genes
antibiotic resistance
During cloning, rDNA is inserted within coding sequence of beta - galactosidase, thus leading to:
insertional inactivation
While using insertional inactivation, the colonies which donot produce any colour in presence of chromogenic substrate are identified as:
Recombinants
Non-recombinants colonies appear ____ in presence of chromogenic substrate when subjected to insertional inactivation
blue
_______ of Agrobecterium is used as a modified cloning vector to deliver gene of interest into plants
Ti plasmid
The viruses which have capability to transform normal cells to cancerous cell in animals are
retroviruses
Agrobacterium delivers a piece of DNA known as _____ in plants to transform normal cells into tumor cells
T-DNA
A pathogen of dicot plants which is used as cloning vector is:
Agrobacterium tumifaciens
The cation used to make bacterial cells competent to take up DNA is
calcium
Heat shock is given to bacterial cells at which temperature to make them competent to take up DNA?
42 degree C
Recombinant DNA is directly injected into the nucleus of an animal cell by
micro-injection
In biolistic method of rDNA transfer, micro-particles of _______ are coated with DNA
tungsten or gold
Cells are bombarded with high velocity micro-particles of gold or tungsten coated with DNA in a method known as:
biolistics or gene gun
Genetic material of all organism is:
nuclei acid
To isolate DNA from bacteria enzymes used to break the cell open is :
Lysozyme
Isolation of DNA from plant cells is done by disintegrating the cell wall using enzyme:
cellulase
To isolate DNA from fungus, enzyme used to break the cell open is:
chitinase
Molecules of DNA are intertwined with proteins like:
histones
During isolation od DNA, DNA is made free from RNA by using enzymes:
Ribonuclease (RNase)
During isolation of DNA, DNA is made free from proteins by using enzymes:
Proteases
After isolating DNA, purified DNA is observed as fine threads in suspension when treated with chilled _______
ethanol
After restriction digestion, the technique which is employed to check whether the DNA has been digested is:
Agarose gel electrophoresis
Joining of source DNA and vector DNA is done with the help of enzymes:
DNA ligase
PCR stands for:
polymerase chain reaction
Multiple copies of the gene of interest are synthesised in vitro using two sets of primers in:
polymerase chain reaction
In PCR, the small chemically synthesised oligonucleotides that are complementary to the regions of DNA are called:
primers
DNA polymerase extends the _____ using nucleotides provided during PCR
primers
Thermostable DNA polymerase used in PCR is isolated from:
Thermus aquaticus