Unit 3: Biotechnology
Terms
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- life or living
- bio
- picking the best plants or animals for producing the next generation
- improvement by selection
- selection of parents to get desirable characteristics in the offspring
- selective breeding
- biology of heredity
- genetics
- transmission of charcteristics from an organism to its offspring through genes in reproductive cells
- heredity
- components of cells which determine the individual characteristics of living things
- genes
- refers to the offspring
- generation
- common parents
- progeny
- coded material in a cell
- Deoxyribonucleic Acid(DNA)
- an exact duplicate of something
- clone
- movement of genetic information in the form of genes from one cell to another
- genetic engineering
- the slightly acid substance in the nuclei of all cells
- nucleic acid
- pairs of strands intertwined with each other and connected by chemicals
- bases
- type of base
- thymine
- process of identifying the location of a specific gene on a chromosome
- mapping
- process of removing and inserting genes into DNA
- gene splicing/recombinant DNA technology
- 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 compound that causes genetically engineered bacteria to turn a brilliant shade of blue
- X-Gal
- a hormone that stimulates increased milk production in cows
- Bovine Somatotropin(BST)
- increaes meat production in swine
- Porcine Somatotropin (PST)
- chemical used by people with diabetes to control their blood sugar levels
- insulin