chapter 26 part 1 extras

Question 1

the space age began on oct 4,1957, when the soviet union launched ______ the world’s first space satellite into orbit

Answer 1

Sputnik

Question 2

soviet Cosmonaut__________ became the first person to orbit earth and ______ became the first american to travel in space

Answer 2

Yury Gagarin

Alan Shepard

Question 3

in 1981; the U.S. launched _______ its first space shuttle

Answer 3

Colombia

Question 4

the worldwide _______ epidemic began in the early 1980s

Answer 4

AIDS

Question 5

in 2001, an international team called the _________ mapped the chemical structure of DNA

Answer 5

human Genome project

Question 6

______ is the process of making a genetically identical copy of an animal’s cell

Answer 6

cloning