Biotechnology 2
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- Life or Living
- Bio
- Picking the best plants or animals for producing the next generation
- Improvement by Selection
- Selection of parent to get desirable characteristics in the offspring
- Selective Breeding
- The transmission of characteristics from an organism to its offspring through genes in reproductive cells
- Heredity
- Biology of heredity
- Genetics
- Components of cells which determine the individual characteristics of living things
- Genes
- The offspring of common parents
- Generation
- Offspring
- Progeny
- Deoxyribonucleic acid
- DNA
- An exact duplicate of something
- Clone
- Refers to the movement of genetic information in the form of genes from one cell to another
- Genetic Engineering
- The hereditary information is stored and from which it can be transferred
- Nucleic Acid
- DNA occurs in pairs of strands intertwined with each other and connected by chemicals
- Bases
- A component of DNA represented by A
- Adenine
- A component of DNA represented by G
- Guanine
- A component of DNA represented by C
- Cytosine
- A component of DNA represented by T
- Thymine
- The process of identifying the location of a specific gene on chromosome
- Mapping
- The process of removing and inserting genes into DNA
- Gene Splitting
- Gene Splitting
- Recombinant DNA Technology
- The process of finding and recording the location of genes
- Gene Mapping
- Bacteria that were genetically altered to retard frost formation on plant leaves
- Ice Minus
- A brilliant shade of blue in the presence of a compound
- X-Gal
- Stimulation of increased milk production in cows
- Bovine Somatotropin (BST)
- Increases meat production in swine
- Porcine Somatotropin (PST)
- The chemical used by people with diabetes to control their blood sugar levels
- Insulin
- Bio means _______.
- Life
- An example of a fermented food is _______.
- Cheese
- The earliest method of livestock improvement was probably by ________.
- Selection
- The person providing the foundation for scientific study of heredity was _______.
- Gregor Johann Mendel