Biotech Summative Quiz

What is the first cloned mammal?

• goat

• cat

• sheep

• cow

A clone can be BEST thought of as a(n)  _____ created in the lab. 

• identical twin
• GMO
• science fiction experiment

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Why might people be against cloning? 

• It's creepy
• It can cause unknown defects
• It is detrimental to genetic diversity
• All of the above

In cloning, what is the purpose of the surrogate mother? 

• Donate her DNA
• Donate her egg cell
• Incubate and carry the baby until birth
• Nothing.  She's useless.

Stem cells are ____________________.

• cells that grow uncontrollably
• undifferentiated and can turn into any type of cell
• those that never go through cell division
• differentiated cells that do one job

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Stem cells can be obtained from _________.

• embryos
• some adult tissues
• umbilical cord blood
• all of the above

Stem cells are used to __________.

• make clones
• create new species of animals
• make babies
• grow different types of tissues

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What is the difference between embryonic stem cells and adult stem cells?

• Embryonic can differentiate into more cell types than adult
• Adult only turn into blood, while embryonic turn into many things.
• Adult can differentiate into more cell types than embryonic
• Adult grow bigger than embryonic

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What does the acronym CRISPR stand for?

• Controlled Reservative Image Spectacle Palindromic Recounts

• Clustered Regularly-Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats

CRISPR can edit DNA. What organisms naturally has CRISPR?

• Viruses

• Humans

• Plants

• Bacteria