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Genetic Engineering Study GuideQuestions and Answers
differentiate between the 2 types of selective breeding - Answer-Hybridization -
breeding organisms with different traits
Inbreeding - breeding organisms with similar traits
give an example of inbreeding - Answer-dog breeders
give an example of hybridization - Answer-horse + donkey = mule
what is a clone? - Answer-member of a population of genetically identical cells
produced from a single cell
who cloned the 1st mammal? what type of mammal did he clone? - Answer-Scottish
scientist Ian Wilmut, he cloned a sheep
List the steps of nuclear transplantation - Answer-1. An egg cell is taken from female
and the nucleus is removed
2. A nucleus is taken from a donor cell
3. The egg cell and nucleus are put together
4. The fused cell is put into a surrogate female and allowed to grow
Dolly was made by the process of nuclear transplantation. Who did Dolly look like, the
egg cell donor, the body cell donor, or the surrogate mother? Explain. - Answer-Dolly
was genetically identical to the body cell donor because the nucleus which contained
the DNA, was taken from the body cell donor.
what is genetic engineering? - Answer-making changes in the DNA code of a living
organism
describe what is meant by cleave and splice? - Answer-cleave - cut with restriction
enzymes
splice - recombined
**cut and paste
what happens during transformation? - Answer-the cell takes in DNA from outside the
cell and it becomes part of the cell's DNA
what is a transgenic organism? - Answer-organism with genes from another species
what is another name for transgenic organisms? - Answer-genetically modified (GM)
what is a genetic marker? - Answer-tells us if the bacterial cell has foreign DNA
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