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Complementary DNA is useful in clonging eukaroytic genes because it represents the gene without the exons.
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Flase
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When a recombinant plasmid is taken up from the surrounding solution by a bacterial cell, it is known as:
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Transformation
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Which is used to make cDNA
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Process mRNA
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A friend asks you a question after your biology class. "What's genetic engineering?" Your answer is:
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Genetic engineering is taking proteins from one organism and placing them into another organism of a different species
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"Golden" rice is so-named because it contains :
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Vitaming a and iron
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Crop plants are made resistant to insect pests by:
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Inserting a gene from bacteria that secrete Bt
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The step that is most labor-intensive in gene transfer procedures is:
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Screening
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DNA fingerprinting is a highly accurate method of identifying a criminal from evidence, left at a crime scene
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True
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All of the following are correct about genetically modified crops except
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A and D are incorrect (they are not allowed to be grown in the U.S. & Only one gene can be inserted into a plant's genome to modify it
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A number of human genes have been inserted into bacteria to produce many usefel human proteins EXCEPT:
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Human hemoglobin
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To seal the cut fragments of DNA together, an enzyme called _____ is used.
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Ligase
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Which of the following is not a genetically engineered drug?
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Glyphosate
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Genetic engineering in agriculture has been employed to
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All of these are correct
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Some bacteria, through natural selection, have acquired some extremely potent enzymes that destroy viral DNA, thereby preventing the bacterial cell from becoming infected with the virus. These enzymes are called:
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Restriction endonucleases
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The enzyme used to carry out the polymerase chain reaction on DNA is:
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DNA polymearse
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