Unit 6

Question 1

Biotechnology

Answer 1

The field that involves applying tools to the genome of an organism

Question 2

Recombinant DNA

Answer 2

The resulting DNA when DNA from two or more organisms are combined

Question 3

Genetic engineering

Answer 3

Modifying nucleic acids either pieces of DNA or RNA or entire genomes

Question 4

Plasmid

Answer 4

A small circular piece of DNA often found in bacteria

Question 5

Cloning

Answer 5

Making a copy of a piece of DNA a gene a genome or an entire organism

Question 6

Reproductive cloning

Answer 6

Using adult cells from an adult individual to make a new individual

Question 7

Therapeutic cloning

Answer 7

Using two adult cells to produce many adult cells

Question 8

Stem cell

Answer 8

An undifferentiated cell that can mature into many different types of cells

Question 9

Gene therapy

Answer 9

Altering genes in order to treat or stop a disease

Question 10

Genomics

Answer 10

The field that studies sequences of nucleotides in DNA as well as their structure function and location

Question 11

Proteomics

Answer 11

The study of proteins produced in an organism

Question 12

Transgenic

Answer 12

An organism that has genetic material from another type of organism