- 1. Mating organisms to produce offspring with certain traits is called
A) mass selection
B) Gattaca selection
C) controlled breeding
D) money breeding
- 2. Crossing plants with desirable traits is called
A) Gattaca selection
B) mass selection
C) controlled breeding
D) plant breeding
- 3. Mating 2 different kinds of organisms is called
A) Mass breeding
B) Inbreeding
C) Interbreeding
D) Inbreeding
- 4. The three types of controlled breeding are the following except
A) Mass Breeding
B) Inbreeding
C) Mass Selection
D) Hybridization
- 5. Humans prefer to selectively breed organisms for the following reasons except
A) Increase Species Variety
B) Monetary
C) Create organisms with better traits
D) boredom
- 6. In handout 3-12, Figure 3-37, the fruit shown depicts that its larger size was created by mass selection. Figure 3-37 is referring to a/an
A) banana
B) apple
C) strawberry
D) cherry
- 7. In class, we learned that a problem that occurs with hybridization is that offspring will have both desirable and ________________ traits.
A) permanent
B) temporary
C) beautiful
D) undesirable
- 8. The Liger baby, the combination offspring of a Lion and female tiger, was said to be ____________ pounds!
A) 90
B) 40
C) 400
D) 900
- 9. Mass selection, Inbreeding, and Hybridization are all alike in that all 3 are
A) forms of natural selection
B) forms of uncontrolled breeding
C) forms of weird selection
D) forms of controlled breeding
- 10. In lesson sheet 3-12, Pat Limage is an Animal breeder. She is a/an ________________ breeder.
A) Zonkey
B) Horse
C) Cow
D) Liger
- 11. Inbreeding is dangerous to the offspring because
A) little genetic variety will give rise to the best looking offspring!
B) little genetic variety will give rise to double the amounts of genetic problems!
C) little genetic variety will give rise to twice the money you can charge for the offspring!
D) little genetic variety will give rise to no genetic problems whatsoever!
- 12. Methods used to produce new forms of DNA is called
A) splicing engineering
B) genetic engineering
C) DNA engineering
D) Ring engineering
- 13. Moving a section of DNA from the genes of one organism to the genes of another organism is called
A) chromosome splicing
B) DNA splicing
C) ring splicing
D) gene splicing
- 14. In a film we saw in class, a gentleman referred held a sign where he stated "No Thanks" to genetically modified food. In this sign, he referred to genetically-modified food as __________________ food because it was food created by the addition of genes from different organisms.
A) Franken
B) Faster
C) Gene
D) Super
- 15. Certain kinds of genetically engineered bacteria can produce _____________________, which is needed by diabetics.
A) Phenylalanine
B) DNA
C) RH1N1 factor
D) Insulin
- 16. PKU can be one day be cured by inserting genetic information of a phenylalanine-digesting enzyme from a healthy donor. This process is an example of
A) genetic engineering
B) Franken engineering
C) DNA engineering
D) phenylalanine engineering
- 17. A danger with genetic engineering is the possibility of producing a/an ________________________ organism for which there is no known cure.
A) health-causing
B) disease-causing
C) happy-causing
D) trait-causing
- 18. In lesson sheet 3-13, the "Science and Technology" section discusses cloning. It is mentioned that the first animal cloned was in 1997, its name was ________________.
A) Lolly
B) Polly
C) Molly
D) Dolly
- 19. In lesson sheet 3-13, the "Science and Technology" section discusses cloning. It is mentioned that "scientists also clone organisms to..." _________________________.
A) study diseases
B) sell cloned rats
C) study Franken genes
D) study physical genetics
- 20. The original DNA strand "A" was noted to be: C-C-A-T. Its newly created form, form "B," was then noted to be: G-C-A-T. Form B is an example of
A) a chromosome deletion
B) polyploidy
C) a gene mutation
D) translocation
- 21. Which of the following 4 diseases can be detected by karyotyping?
A) Sickle-Cell Anemia
B) Tay-Sachs
C) PKU
D) Down's syndrome
- 22. In a karyotype, Down's syndrome can be detected because there will be a trisomy (3 chromosomes) in chromosome pair
A) 23
B) 20
C) 22
D) 21
- 23. Another name scientists use for genetic engineering is
A) Giotechnology
B) Biotechnology
C) Genotechnology
D) Cryotechnology
- 24. If I do not develop better study habits, hand-in my homeworks on time, and obtain better grades in my quizzes I will qualify for
A) the Alvarado scholarship!
B) summer school!
C) a free Apple Ipad!
D) science student of the year!
- 25. The disease where a fatty building of the brain causes neurological delays in children of Eastern-European Jews is
A) Down's Syndrome
B) Sickle Cell Anemia
C) Tay-Sachs
D) PKU
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