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Genetic Engineering Quiz

Description: genetic engineering
Number of Questions: 20
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Genetic engineering can be...

  1. easy to do at home if you know how

  2. Always good

  3. Always bad

  4. Both good and bad


Correct Option: D

Which of these descriptions is an example of genetic engineering?

  1. developing new fertilizers for growing corn plants

  2. inserting a gene for disease resistance into a corn plant

  3. crossing two corn plants that are resistant to pesticides

  4. breeding two corn plants that produce larger ears of corn


Correct Option: B

Genetic engineering involves the movement of what?

  1. proteins 

  2.  enzymes

  3. genes

  4. sugar


Correct Option: C

The purpose of genetic engineering is to

  1. develop safer pesticides

  2. study obesity and cancer

  3. reduce Earth's biodiversity

  4. give organisms new traits


Correct Option: D

What is used to cut the gene out of an organism?

  1. A special type of fat

  2. A special type of harmone

  3. A special type of cell

  4. A special type of enzyme


Correct Option: D

Which is an example of a GMO crop?

  1. Selectively bred corn that grows tall

  2. Strawberry plants with DNA to prevent freezing

  3. Carrots selectively bred to be green

  4. A cloned Artichoke


Correct Option: B

which one of these is a example of GMO ?

  1. corn

  2. soy

  3. canola

  4. all of the above


Correct Option: D

What is the objective of GMO ?

  1. to develop the science industry

  2. To make different types of plants

  3. to experiment

  4. To give plants positive characteristics


Correct Option: D

What is GMO called?

  1. Gupol meteor ostroid

  2. Generrated modified occasion

  3. Genetically modified organism

  4. Genyu


Correct Option: C

Which of the following is an example of a transgenic organism?

  1. Mule

  2. Liger

  3. Frost resistant strawberries

  4. Phaseolus vulgaris


Correct Option: C

What is a transgenic organism?

  1. An pure bred organism

  2. An organism with a disease

  3. An organism with DNA from two or more organisms

  4. An organism who can't get no love


Correct Option: C

What is the third stage of genetic engineering?

  1. Organism replicates = more have the desired gene

  2. The gene is cut from the DNA using enzymes and is isolated

  3. The gene that produces the wanted charactersitic is selected

  4. The useful DNA is inserted into the DNA of another organism


Correct Option: D

What is the second stage of genetic engineering?

  1. Organism replicates = more have the desired gene

  2. The gene is cut from the DNA using enzymes and is isolated

  3. The gene that produces the wanted charactersitic is selected

  4. The useful DNA is inserted into the DNA of another organism


Correct Option: B

What is the third stage of genetic engineering?

  1. Organism replicates = more have the desired gene

  2. The gene is cut from the DNA using enzymes and is isolated

  3. The gene that produces the wanted charactersitic is selected

  4. The useful DNA is inserted into the DNA of another organism


Correct Option: D

what is the first step of the genetic engineering?

  1. bacteria reproduce rapidly

  2. replication of the transgenic organism

  3. selection of the desired characteristic

  4. insertion of the gene into another organism


Correct Option: C

The vector commonly used in genetic engineering is

  1. E. coli

  2. Micropipette

  3. Gel eletrophoresis

  4. Plasmid


Correct Option: D

In genetic engineering, the DNA is-

  1. Altered

  2. Kept the same

  3. Duplicated

  4. Mutated


Correct Option: A

What is Genetic engineering?

  1. Artificially altering the DNA of an organism?

  2. Artificially altering the DNA of a shoe

  3. Nothing

  4. Killing babies


Correct Option: A

Genetic engineering is...?

  1. changing an organisms genetic sequence

  2. transcribing an organisms genetic sequence

  3. copying an organisms genetic sequence

  4. growing an organisms genetic sequence


Correct Option: A

What is happening in genetic manipulation?

  1. animals mate produce a "super" organism

  2. Desirable gene of a plant is inserted into DNA of another

  3. Undesirable genes are transferred to a new plant to grow.

  4. Scientists allow plants to reproduce naturally.


Correct Option: B
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