Agriscience Biotechnology
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- Bio means ______.
- Life
- An example of fermented food is ________.
- Cheese
- The earliest method of livestock improvement was probably by _________.
- Selection
- The person providing the foundation for scientific studt of heredity was ________.
- Gregor Johann Mendel
- The genetic code of life is ______.
- DNA
- Adenine, Guanine, Cytosine, and Thymine are all ______.
- Bases
- Recombinant DNA technology is also known as _______.
- Gene splicing
- Genetic engineering can be done to change ___________.
- Animals, microorganisms, and plants
- Important contribution to biotechnology to waste management is _________.
- Bacteria that consume oil
- Chemical pollutants in water that may be decomposed or deactivated by bacteria include _________.
- PCBs
- Used to make alcoholic beverages
- Fruits and grains
- Causes bread to rise
- Yeast
- Fermented grains or grasses
- Silage
- Heredity
- Genetics
- DNA and bases
- Genes
- Result of dominant gene
- Tall pea plants
- Deoxyribonucleic acid
- DNA
- Embryo
- Fertilized cell
- Controls blood sugar levels
- Insulin
- Makes "marked" bacteria turn blue
- X-Gal
- Life or living
- Bio
- To pick the best plant or animals for producing the next generation
- Improvement by selection
- The selection of parents to get desirable characteristics in the offspring
- Selective breeding
- The biology of heredity
- Genetics
- The transmission of characteristics from an organism to an offspring through genes in reproductive cells
- Heredity
- Components of cells which determine the individual characteristics of living things; are comprised of DNA
- Genes
- The offspring of common parents
- Generation
- The offspring
- Progeny
- The coded material in a cell; also called DNA
- Deoxyribonucleic acid
- An exact duplicate of something
- Clone
- The movement of genetic information in the form of genes from one cell to another
- Genetic engineering
- A slightly acid substance the nuclei of all cells contain; DNA
- Nucleic acid
- Chemicals that connect pairs of strands of DNA together
- Bases
- Bases of DNA known as "A"
- Adenine
- Bases of DNA known as "G"
- Guanine
- Bases of DNA known as "C"
- Cytosine
- Bases of DNA known as "T"
- Thymine
- The process of identifying the location of a specific gene on a chromosome
- Mapping
- The process of removing and inserting genes into DNA
- Gene Splicing/Recominant 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 compound that turns genetically enginerred bacteria into a shade of blue to easily detect and trace
- X-Gal
- A hormone that is used in the stimulation of increased milk production in cows
- Bovine somatotropin (BST)
- An animal hormone that increased meat production in swine
- Porcine somatotropin (PST)
- The chemical used by people to control their blood sugar levels
- Insulin
- A scientist in the 1800s that worked with peas to manipulate genes
- Gregor Johann Mendel
- Science through modifying genetic traits that include genetic engineering, genetic enhancements
- Biotechnology
- Name five purposes of biotechnology
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1. Modify and improve plants, animals, and microorganisms
2. Improve health
3. Fight diseases
4. Protect environment
5. Fight hunger - What substance was first made by a genetically enhanced bacteria to control blood sugar levels?
- Insulin
- List four benefits from biotechnology?
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1. Provides higher nutritional ingredients and human health
2. Controls animal diseases
3. Increases yield and less soil erosion
4. High quality crops (resistance through chemicals from diseases, weather, pests)