Chapter 10

Question 1

Genetic engineering or bioengineering

Answer 1

The direct, deliberate modification of an organisms genome

Question 2

Synthetic biology and biotechnology

Answer 2

Major aims are are the design of biological systems that can synthesize new forms of molecules, cells, organs, and even organisms

Question 3

Restriction endonucleases

Answer 3

Originate in bacterial cells and recognize foreign DNA and are capable of breaking the phosphodiester bonds between adjacent nucleotides on both strands of DNA, leading to a break in the strand; protect against the incompatible DNA from bacteriophages or plasmids

Question 4

Palindromes

Answer 4

Sequences of DNA based that are identical when read from the 5’ to 3’ direction on one strand and the opposite direction on the complementary strand