Vocabulary

Question 1

Gene therapy

Answer 1

Treatment of a genetic disorder by altering a persons genotype

Question 2

Genetic diversity

Answer 2

All the alleles of all the genes in the genome of a species

Question 3

Genetic profiling/fingerprinting

Answer 3

Sequencing a length of DNA from an organism, to compare with the sequence of the same DNA from other organisms

Question 4

Genetic screening

Answer 4

Testing an embryo, fetus or adult to find out whether a particular allele is present

Question 5

Gene technology

Answer 5

A procedure by which one or more selected genes are removed from one organism and inserted into another, which is then said to be transgenic

Question 6

Variable number tandem repeats VNTRs

Answer 6

A length of DNA that contains different numbers of repeated base sequels in different individuals in a species