Biotechnology Unit 11

Biotechnology is...

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• The application of a technological process to living organisms

• The application of a technological method to living organisms

• The application of a technological inventions to living organisms

• The application of transferring a gene from parent to offspring

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What is a desirable trait?

Answer explanation

Traits that we want them to have

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_____ is when you only breed those that have the desirable traits.

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Inbreeding is

• breeding organisms with some similar traits and some different traits

• breeding organisms with different traits

• breeding organisms with similar traits

_____ is the ultimate source of genetic variations

• mutations

• cloning

• breeders

• CRISPR

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How can breeder induce (cause) mutations?

What does Polyploidy mean?

• one set of chromosomes

• two or less sets of chromosomes

• no chromosomes present

• Many sets of chromosomes

Why would you want to induce polyploidy?

Answer explanation

to produce new species of plants that may

be larger and stronger

____ is making changes in the DNA code of a living organism.

Polymerase chain reactions (PCR) is used by scientists to

• Cut DNA

• give desirable traits to an organism

• make many copies of genes to study them

• stop DNA replication