Biology End of MP 5

Companies that create GMOs can patent genes and DNA sequences.

• True
• False

GM foods look and taste the same as traditional foods and crops. The only difference is that a GM plant has...

• fewer calories.

• the addition of specific minerals.

• foreign genes with traits that improve something about the plant.

• A bacteria growing inside of them

Tags

NGSS.HS-LS3-2

What is the name of the enzyme used to cut DNA at specific sites?

• DNA ligase
• Restriction site
• Restriction enzyme
• DNA helicase

The bacterium used to modify plants to make them GM is called

• avobacterium

• agrobacterium

• granobacterium

• gregabacterium

What is a GMO?

• An organism with foreign DNA inside its genome
• An organism missing genes
• An organism with fewer proteins
• A genetically identical organism

Tags

NGSS.HS-LS3-1

NGSS.HS-LS3-2

NGSS.HS-LS4-2

What is the name of the ends of DNA that have been cut in a jaggered manner?

• Sharp ends
• Blunt ends
• Sticky ends
• Jaggered ends

What is the name of the enzyme used to stick pieces of DNA together?

• DNA ligate
• Restriction enzyme
• Restriction site
• DNA ligase

Putting the gene for bioluminescence into a fish is an example of...

• Genetic Engineering
• Selective Breeding
• Artificial Selection
• Gene Mutation

When making bacteria that manufacture human insulin, where does the insulin gene come from?

• Viral DNA
• Pig DNA
• Bacterial DNA
• Human DNA

Where is a plasmid found?

• Inside a virus
• Inside a bacterium
• Inside your DNA
• Inside every organism