Question 1

Which is an example of a traditional biotechnology?

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Selecting and sowing the seeds from the strongest, most desirable plants to produce the next generation of crops

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Allow plant breeders to select genes that produce beneficial traits and move them from one organism to another.

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Introduce genetic material from other plants and organisms.

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Produce renewable plant-based energy and industrial products and biological agents to clean up contaminated soils.

Question 2

Which is not true about agriculture biotechnology?

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Large-scale gene flow occurs during agriculture biotechnology applications.

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Crops are designed to resist insect and viral pest or tolerate broad-spectrum herbicides account for most of the biotechnology crops available commercially.

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Agricultural biotechnology companies have avoided using genetic material from nuts, soybeans, milk, eggs, fish and crustaceans foods in developing biotechnology products.

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Farmers adopt biotechnology products because they deliver value by reducing operating and input expenses.

Question 3

In Agriculture, how can Genomics be used for?

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All of the above

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improve plants' disease resistance

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generate new hybrid strains

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improve yield

Question 4

What is a genetically modified organism (GMO)?

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An organism with artificially altered genome

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A hybrid organism

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Any agricultural organism produced by breeding or biotechnology

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A plant with certain genes removed

Question 5

What is the most challenging issue facing genome sequencing?

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The ethics of using information from genomes at the individual level.

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The availability and stability of DNA.

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The inability to develop fast and accurate sequencing techniques.

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All of the above

Question 6

What carries a gene from one organism into a bacteria cell?

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a plasmid

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an electrophoresis gel

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a polymerase chain reaction

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a restriction enzyme

Question 7

Which of the following is not the goal of modern biotechnology?

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To sustain the food, fuel needs and employment security of the world.

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To produce vaccines and medicines that will improve health.

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To increase the effectiveness and efficiency of plant breeding.

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To manipulate genes and tissues and achieve the desirable traits of organisms.

Question 8

Which is not an example of conventional or traditional biotechnology?

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Bioremediation

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Domestication

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Fermentation

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Selection

Question 9

Which is not a target of selective breeding?

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Adding of any foreign genetic material(DNA) into the organism.

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Eliminate or reduce diseases.

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Develop livestock whose desirable traits have strong heritable components and can therefore be propagated.

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Create new varieties of good crops.

Question 10

Which of the following describes Red Biotechnology?

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Relates to medicine and veterinary products.

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Associated with bioterrorism or biological weapons.

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Draws inspiration from industrial biotech to design more energy-efficient, less polluting, and low resource-consuming processes and products.

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Emphasizes on agriculture that involves creating new plant varieties.

Question 11

Which statement is incorrect?

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Selective breeding in animals allows continuous inheritance of diseases.

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Selective breeding involves choosing parents with particular characteristics to breed together and produce offspring with more desirable characteristics.

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Inbreeding refers to the breeding from closely related people or animals, especially over many generations.

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Hybridization refers to the process of animal and plant breeding with an individual of another species or variety.

Question 12

Amino acids are the building blocks of ________ ?

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proteins

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lipids

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carbohydrates

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DNA and RNA

Question 13

Which of the following statements is true?

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DNA molecules are in the shape of a double helix.

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Each DNA molecule is a single gene.

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mRNA molecules are similar to DNA in terms of structure.

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Gene is a DNA sequence that contains instructions to make lipids.

Question 14

Which of the following statements is true about DNA?

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DNA is composed of amino acids, phosphates, sugars, and bases.

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The breaking of the hydrogen bonds causes the RNA to unzip.

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At the beginning of protein synthesis, a section of a DNA molecule unwinds or unzips.

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All DNA is normally located in the nucleus of our cells.

Question 15

What is a DNA codon composed of?

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Three nucleotides

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Hundreds of nucleotides

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RNA and phosphate group

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One nucleotide

Question 16

The DNA code is ______.

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shared by all living things

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unique to humans

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found only in mammals

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absent in all viruses

Question 17

Portions of DNA molecules that do not contain the codes for proteins are called ______.

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introns

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exons

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mutagens

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neutrons

Question 18

There are about 3 billion chemical base pairs in human DNA. Approximately how much of these base pairs actually code for genes?

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1-2 percent

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50-100 percent

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100 percent

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10-20 percent

Question 19

Which is true about ribosomes?

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Proteins are produced at the ribosomes.

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Water is stored at the ribosomes.

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mRNAs are formed at the ribosomes.

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Most of a cell's DNA molecules housed in the ribosomes.

Question 20

The human body is composed mostly of _____.

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oxygen, nitrogen, hydrogen, and carbon

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calcium, iron, phosphorus, and zinc

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oxygen, hydrogen, calcium, and iron

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hydrogen, oxygen, carbon, and potassium

Question 21

The largest molecules in our body are_______.

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chromosomes

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proteins

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amino acids

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nucleic acids

Question 22

What do the letters outside the box represent?

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Parents’ genotype

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Parents' phenotype

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Offspring phenotype

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Offspring' genotype

Question 23

Which does not describe a gene?

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Occupies a non-fixed position.

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Genes are made of a substance called deoxyribonucleic acid, or DNA.

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Responsible for the expression of physical features and characteristics of organisms.

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Genes give instructions for a living being to make molecules called proteins

Question 24

Germ mutations are passed on from parents to offspring.

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boolean://true

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boolean://false

Question 25

If the anticodon contains the base sequence GUC. The base sequence of the original DNA code being translated would be..

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CAG

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CTG

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GUC

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GTC

Question 26

Father of Heredity

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freetext://Carolus Linnaeus

Question 27

Which is not an effect of toxins released by the Escherichia coli bacteria to your body?

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The nerves that control your muscles are effected, which can lead to difficulty in swallowing.

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Escherichia coli can disrupt the central nervous system function.

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Hemorrhagic diarrhea may result when toxins released are untreated.

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E. coli bacteria make a toxin that can damage the lining of the small intestine

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