This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Agriculture > Biotechnology > Genetic Engineering > Genetic Engineering – Quiz 52 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Genetic Engineering Quiz 52 (30 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. One of the most commonly used GMO is ..... A) Taking a fly gene to prevent colorblindness and putting it in humans with colorblindness. B) Using a bacteria that is a natural pesticide called Bt and inserting in corn to make it produce its own pesticide. C) Taking a gene that prevents hypothermia in penguins and placing in strawberries so they don't freeze. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Using a bacteria that is a natural pesticide called Bt and inserting in corn to make it produce its own pesticide. 2. An organism containing genetic material that has been artificially altered to produce a desired characteristic A) Genetic Engineering. B) Gene Therapy. C) Genetically Modified Organism. D) Artificial Selection. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Genetically Modified Organism. 3. Choosing to crossbreed organisms from different species to get the best desired traits from both (beefalo, mule, zonkey) A) Inbreeding. B) Hybridization. C) Recombinant DNA. D) Selectivism. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Hybridization. 4. The process of putting a plasmid into a bacteria cell A) Vector. B) Plasmid. C) Genetically Modified Organism. D) Transformation. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Transformation. 5. Due to genetic inheritance, members of a species can be slightly different from another in their traits. This is known as ..... A) Overproduction. B) Competition. C) Variation. D) Evolution. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Variation. 6. When body cells are used in cloning it is A) Somatic cell nuclear transfer. B) Embryonic cell transfer. C) Transgenic cells. D) Any cell nuclear transfer. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Somatic cell nuclear transfer. 7. What does CRISPR stand for? A) Clustered Regularly Interspaced Single Palindromic Repeats. B) Crunchy Red Important Splicing Process Repair. C) Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats. D) Clustered Rare Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats. 8. One variety of strawberry is resistant to a damaging fungus, butproduces small fruit. Another strawberry variety produces largefruit, but Is not resistant to the same fungus. The two desirablequalities may be combined in a new variety of strawberry plant by A) Selective breeding. B) Cloning. C) Asexual reproduction. D) Direct harvesting. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Selective breeding. 9. Genetic engineering has been used to mass-produce insulin. A) FALSE. B) TRUE. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) TRUE. 10. Based on the video, all are said to be "waves of evolution", except: A) Directed Evolution. B) Darwinian Evolution. C) Lamarckian Evolution. D) Civilization. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Lamarckian Evolution. 11. What do mutations change? A) DNA. B) Chromosomes. C) Genes. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) DNA. 12. What is an example of genetic engineering? A) Making insulin to help people with diabetes. B) Changing you genes. C) Nothing. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Making insulin to help people with diabetes. 13. Who was Dolly the sheep? A) First clone mammal. B) The most gangsta sheep ever. C) First sheep to swim across the ocean. D) First sheep to travel to space. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) First clone mammal. 14. The size of the DNA is determined by A) Inches. B) Base pairs. C) Peptide bonds. D) Centimeters. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Base pairs. 15. Produce an organism that is the exact copy of another A) Genome. B) Cloning. C) Gene Splicing. D) Bioremediation. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Cloning. 16. The manipulation of genes through artificially creating new traits in an organism's genome is called A) Selective breeding. B) Genetic modification. C) Vegetative propagation. D) Hybridization. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Genetic modification. 17. In which ways can genetic engineering can improve crops A) Make them pest or drought resistant. B) Make them more nutritious. C) Make them larger. D) All answers are correct. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) All answers are correct. 18. What happens when we change a gene? A) We can change the protein it codes for. B) Cloning. C) A person's whole body changes. D) Nothing. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) We can change the protein it codes for. 19. Used to create an organism with a different trait by changing the organism's genetic information A) Civil Engineering. B) Chemical Engineering. C) Mechanical Engineering. D) Genetic Engineering. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Genetic Engineering. 20. What did Carolus Linnaeus develop? A) The theory of natural selection. B) The first scientific system for classifying and naming living things. C) The hypothesis that Earth is more than 300 million years old. D) The idea that evolution takes place by small, gradual steps. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The first scientific system for classifying and naming living things. 21. What does it mean to "extract" DNA? A) Put in. B) Take out. C) Modify. D) Delete. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Take out. 22. A mouse that glows because of a gene from a jellyfish is produced by A) Genetic engineering. B) Gene mutation. C) Selective breeding. D) Cloning. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Genetic engineering. 23. Can DNA fragments be separated and analyzed? A) Yes through a procedure called mitosis. B) Yes through a procedure called gel electrophoresis. C) No there is no way to separate and analyze DNA fragments. D) Yes through a procedure called meiosis. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Yes through a procedure called gel electrophoresis. 24. The genotype for Type O blood is an example of a(n) A) Dominant genotype. B) Recessive genotype. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Recessive genotype. 25. The entire set of genes that belongs to an organism is called its ..... A) Gene. B) DNA sequence. C) Chromosome. D) Genome. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Genome. 26. What is a goal of selective breeding? I. To increase the value of species to humansII. To produce species that resist diseaseIII. To produce species with specific traits A) I and II. B) II and III. C) I and III. D) I, II, and III. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) I, II, and III. 27. True or false:The larger the DNA fragment, the further it will travel. A) False. B) True. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) False. 28. Used to separate DNA fragments by size. A) DNA sequencing. B) Recombinant DNA. C) PCR. D) Gel electrophoresis. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Gel electrophoresis. 29. Identify whether the statements are correct.I. Humans are not included in the organisms that are subjected to genetic modifications.II. Genetic Engineering aims to remove unwanted characteristics, and insert and merge desired trait. A) Statement I is correct. B) Statement II is correct. C) Both statement I and II are correct. D) Both statement I and II are incorrect. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Statement II is correct. 30. What was used to cut the plasmid to enable us to insert the desired gene? A) Ligase. B) GFP. C) PGLO. D) Restriction enzymes. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Restriction enzymes. ← PreviousNext →Related QuizzesBiotechnology QuizzesAgriculture QuizzesGenetic Engineering Quiz 1Genetic Engineering Quiz 2Genetic Engineering Quiz 3Genetic Engineering Quiz 4Genetic Engineering Quiz 5Genetic Engineering Quiz 6Genetic Engineering Quiz 7Genetic Engineering Quiz 8 🏠 Back to Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books