Deck 1 Slides 1-8 Flashcards
The goal of geneticists is to produce organisms with ________ ________.
Desirable traits
Selective breeding includes _________ and _________.
Inbreeding, hybridization
Genetic engineering includes _______ ________ and _________.
Transgenic organisms, cloning
The faster way to produce a desired organism is ________ _________.
Genetic engineering
A _________ _________ is an organism with a gene from another organism in it.
Transgenic organism
________ ________ is an experimental cloning technique, in which a mammalian clone is grown from a cell taken from an adult animal.
Dolly cloning
________ ________ is when you pick parents who both have the desired trait, breed, and look for the offspring with that trait.
Selective breeding
When breeding you are dealing with _______; not all of the offspring will have the desired trait.
Probability
_______ _______ is used to produce all dog breeds, horse, cats, crops, farm animals, flowers.
Selective breeding
Luther Burbank selectively bred a disease resistant _______.
Potato
The Burbank Potato helped Ireland to recover from the _______ _______ _______.
Great Potato Famine
Breeding closely related organisms with the same desired trait is called ________.
Inbreeding
Inbreeding is used to maintain _________ dog breeds.
Purebred
The advantage of inbreeding is that offspring are more likely to have the ________ ________ because the parents are so genetically similar.
Desired trait
The disadvantage of inbreeding is there is a high chance that a cross will bring together 2 _______ ________ for a genetic disorder.
Recessive alleles
