Genetic Engineering

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changing the DNA in living organisms to create something new

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Genetic Engineering

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are called Transgenic Organism; since genes are transferred from one organism to another

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Genetically Modified Organism

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breeders choose which organism to mate to produce offspring with desired traits

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Artificial Selection

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when animals with desired characteristics are mated to produce offspring with those desired traits

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Selective Breeding

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2 individuals with unlike characteristics are crossed to produce the best in both organism

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Hybridization

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breeding of organisms that genetically similar to maintain desired traits

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Inbreeding

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creating an organism that is an exact genetic copy of another

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Cloning

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DNA is cut out of one organisms and put it into another organisms

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Gene Splicing

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enzyme that cuts the DNA at a specific code

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Restriction Enzyme

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when a gene from one organism is transferred to different organism

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Transformation

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a technique used to compare DNA from two or more organism

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Gel Electrophoresis

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means visible life that was constructed through rock units that bear abundant fossils

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Phanerozoic Eon

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represents the period between the birth of the planet and the appearance of life forms

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Precambrian Eon

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is also knows as the “age of mammals”

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Cenozoic Era

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is also known as the “age of reptiles”

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Mesozoic Era

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is also known as the “age pf invertebrates”

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Paleozoic Era

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human evolution

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Quartenary Period

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mammals diversity

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Tertiary Period

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extinction of dinosaurs, first primates, first flowering plants

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Cretaceous Period

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first birds, dinosaurs diversity

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Jurassic Period

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first mammals, first dinosaurs

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Triassic Period

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are the shortest subdivisions unit in the Earth’ s geological time scale

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Epochs

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the hypothetical process by which living organism develop from non-living matter

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Spontaneous Generation

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• Permian
• Carboniferous
• Devonian
• Silurian
• Ordovician
• Cambrian

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Paleozoic Era

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suggests that life started in a primordial soup of organic molecules

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Primordial Soup Theory

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suggests that building blocks of life came from another planet

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Theory of Pansperma (exogenesis)

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is the death of every member of a species

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Extinction

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refer to variant form of given gene

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Alleles

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is a field of science that deals with genetic variation in the populations of organism in the ecosystem

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Population Genetics

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happens when many species go extinct at one time

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Mass Extinction

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are sets of gene that regulate the expression of certain traits in the organisms

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Genotype

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are the observed traits expressed in the individuals

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Phenotypes

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are segments of DNA that regulates the expression of the traits

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Genes

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can causes changes in the DNA structure

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Mutation

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is the change of allele frequencies as a product of random event in environment

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Genetic Drift

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refers to the loss of genetic variation in the new population that was established by a very few individuals from a larger population

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Founder Effect

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refers to an event where there is an abrupt reduction in the size of a population cause by a random event

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Population Bottleneck

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refers to the process where pieces of DNA are segmented and recombined to produce new combinations of allele

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Recombination