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biotechnology 10
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| WHAT DOES CLONING MEAN? | A GENETICALLY IDENTICAL COPY OF DNA |
| CLONING VECTOR | A SMALL PIECE OF DNA INTO WHICH A FOREIGN FRAGMENT CAN BE INSERTED. |
| GENETICALLY MODIFIED ORGANISM (GMO) | AN ORGANISM WHOSE GENETIC MATERIAL HAS BEEN ALTERED USING GENECTIC ENGINEERING |
| PROBE | A SECTION OF DNA THAT IS MENT TO ADHERE TO ITS OPPOSITE STRAND. |
| PRIMER | A SHORT SINGLE STRAND OF DNA. |
| (COMPLEMENTARY)CDNA | DNA SYNTHESIZED FROM AN RNA TEMPLATE BY THE ENZYME REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE |
| SEQUENCING | METHOD OF DETERMINING THE ORDER OF NUCLEOTIDES IN DNA |
| PLASMIDS | A SMALL CIRCULAR DNA IN BACTERIA. SELF REPLICATING |
| GENOME | AN ORGANISMS COMPLETE SET OF GENETIC MATERIAL |
| DNA FINGER PRINT | AN INDIVIDUALS UNIQUE ARRAY OF SHORT RANDOM REPEATS NO TWO ARE THE SAME |
| SHORT TANDOM REPEATS | IN DNA ,WHEN A PATTERN OF TWO OR MORE REPEATS |
| POLYMERESE CHAIN REACTION (PCR) | IS USED TO AMPLIFY THE QUANITITIES OF A DNA FRAGMENTS WITHOUT CLONING IT |
| GEL ELECTROPHORESIS | A TECHNIQUE THAT SEPERATES DNA FRAGMENTS BY SIZE |
| HOW IS RECOMBINANT DNA CREATED | BY INSERTING FOREIGN DNA INTO HOST DNA USING RESTRICTION ENZYMES |
| WHAT DOES RESTRICTION ENZYMES DO | CUT OR OPEN DNA AT PREDICTABLE RESTRICTION SITES |
| WHAT HAPPENS AFTER RESTRICTION ENZYMES ARE CUT | STICKY ENDS ARE EXPOSED AND EXTERNAL DNA CAN BE ADDED TO STICKY ENDS. DNA LIGASE SEALS THE DNA BACK TOGETHER |
| RECOMBINANT DNA | A DNA MOLECULE THAT CONTAINS GENETIC MATERIAL FROM MORE THAN ONE ORGANISM |
| REVESE TRANSCRIPTASE | A VIRAL ENZYME THAT USES mRNA AS A TEMPLATE TO MAKE A STRAND OF DNA |
| DNA LIGASE | THE PROCESS OF JOINING TOGETHER TWO MOLECULES ENDS |
| DNA POLYMERASE | IT TAKES OUR DNA UNWINDS IT AND BUILD A MATCHING MATE TO EACH STRAND |