This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Agriculture > Biotechnology > Genetic Engineering > Genetic Engineering – Quiz 62 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Genetic Engineering Quiz 62 (30 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. -How can he lift that tank? He must be a ..... ! A) Chemist. B) Play God. C) Super soldier. D) Hereditary disease. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Super soldier. 2. Micropropagation can be used to:I. Produce many clones of new varieties of plants II. Re-populate endangered plant speciesIII. Protect plants from viruses and bacteria found in the natural environment A) I only. B) II only. C) II and III only. D) I, II and III. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) I, II and III. 3. What is the main advantage of using bacteria as a human insulin factory in genetic engineering? A) Ability to reproduce asexually and produce millions of identical cells. B) Ability to glow in the dark. C) Ability to clean up toxic waste. D) Ability to produce pesticide resistant plants. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Ability to reproduce asexually and produce millions of identical cells. 4. A biologist needs to know which of three male zebras fathered the litter. Which process can solve this problem. A) Organism cloning. B) Gene therapy. C) Genome sequencing. D) DNA fingerprinting. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) DNA fingerprinting. 5. Which of the following describes "plasmid?" A) Sections of DNA. B) DNA that is only found in eukaryotic cells. C) Circular DNA. D) Linear DNA. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Circular DNA. 6. The use of cloning technology on humans raises serious ethical and moral issues. A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 7. Using a patient's stem cells to create a lab grown organ for transplant. A) Genetically Engineered Organs. B) Genetically Modified Food. C) Splicing. D) Gene Splicing. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Genetically Engineered Organs. 8. What can you conclude from the fact that humans have cloned plants for thousands of years? A) Most of the crops that exist today are clones. B) Cloning plants is much easier than cloning animals. C) Cloned plants are immune to all diseases and pests. D) Much of today's modern technology was developed in ancient times. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Cloning plants is much easier than cloning animals. 9. Which of the following monomers are repeatedly joined together to form a strand of DNA? A) Fatty acids. B) Amino acids. C) Polysaccharides. D) Nucleotides. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Nucleotides. 10. Genetic Engineering is A) The breeding of organism. B) A class you can take at Harkness. C) The powerhouse of the cell. D) A manipulation of DNA done by scientists. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) A manipulation of DNA done by scientists. 11. Dd letters are an example of ..... A) Recessive genes. B) Homozygous genes. C) Dominant genes. D) Heterozygous genes. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Heterozygous genes. 12. Which of these is the first step in selective breeding flowers. A) Chose which trait is desirable. B) Repeat the process only with the offspring with the desired traits. C) Choose plants that have the desired trait to pollinate. D) Watch the seeds grow. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Chose which trait is desirable. 13. DNA can be used to compare organisms for which of the following reasons? A) Determine parents of a child. B) Match DNA collected at a crime scene to a suspect. C) Analyze evolutionary relationships among organisms. D) All of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) All of the above. 14. The source of genetic variability comes from A) Mutations. B) Selective breeding. C) Hybridization. D) Clones. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Mutations. 15. Used to calculate distance between markers A) DIKES. B) STS. C) FISH. D) TOGA. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) STS. 16. Some mutation can adversely affects the normal, wild-type gene product within the same cell.They are called A) Beneficial mutation. B) Negative mutation. C) Silent mutation. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Negative mutation. 17. What term names the process during which DNA is copied prior to cell division? A) DNA regeneration. B) DNA polymerase. C) DNA redistribution. D) DNA replication. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) DNA replication. 18. Which of the following is NOT an example of genetically modified food A) Chicken that are born with NOT feathers. B) Tomatoes with a fish gene that causes to to last longer on the shelf. C) Wheat with a bacteria gene inserted to stop insects from eating it. D) Oil eating bacteria. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Oil eating bacteria. 19. Which type of variation is represented by a normal distribution? A) Continuous variation. B) Discontinuous variation. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Continuous variation. 20. A scientist is using a blotting technique to measure expression of RNA amongst genes. What blotting technique is he using? A) Western blotting. B) Northern blotting. C) Southern blotting. D) Eastern blotting. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Northern blotting. 21. Which genetic engineering technique allows us to produce multiple, identical copies of a single gene? A) CRISPR. B) Cloning. C) Gene Therapy. D) PCR. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Cloning. 22. Which of the following techniques do scientists use to make many copies of a gene? A) Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR). B) Gel Electrophoresis. C) Cloning. D) Translation. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR). 23. What does it mean to "insert" DNA? A) Take out. B) Delete. C) Modify. D) Put in. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Put in. 24. Sometimes successive rounds of screening of a genomic library are carried out and an ordered collection of clones is done in a linear fashion, then the process is called as A) Chromosome walking. B) Chromosome sorting. C) Transposon tagging. D) Chromosome jumping. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Chromosome walking. 25. What do gene maps show? A) Location of all the genes on a chromosome. B) Location of all the genes in the human body. C) Location of all the chromosomes in an individual. D) Location of an all the DNA in an individual's genes. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Location of all the genes on a chromosome. 26. Which module's techniques overlap with those mentioned in the video? A) Module 7. B) Module 9. C) Module 6. D) Module 5. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Module 6. 27. Agricultural biotechnology focuses on what area? A) Medical equipment. B) Manufacturing fabrics. C) Farming, crops and livestock. D) Stem cells. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Farming, crops and livestock. 28. What is the purpose of PCR? A) To watch polymerase work. B) To produce millions of copies of DNA. C) To produce millions of copies of a specific region of DNA. D) To add nucleotides to a DNA sequence. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) To produce millions of copies of a specific region of DNA. 29. When the insulin gene is transferred to the plasmid using ligase enzyme, it is known as ..... A) Remade DNA. B) Recombined DNA. C) Reconstituted DNA. D) Recombinant DNA. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Recombinant DNA. 30. ..... was a GMO that was able to make vitamin A, unlike its normal kind. A) Golden Rice. B) Golden papaya. C) Vitamin A carrots. D) Rainbow papaya. 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