This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Agriculture > Biotechnology > Genetic Engineering > Genetic Engineering – Quiz 7 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Genetic Engineering Quiz 7 (30 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Organism is another word for a ..... A) Living thing. B) Piece of DNA. C) GMO. D) Gene. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Living thing. 2. Inserting a gene for bioluminescence (glowing) into fish is an example of ..... A) Artificial selection. B) Natural selection. C) Genetic engineering. D) Selective breeding. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Genetic engineering. 3. How did Dolly compare to sheep that were cloned with the same DNA? A) Dolly was less healthy. B) Dolly lived longer. C) Dolly had more genetic material. D) Dolly had fewer parents. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Dolly was less healthy. 4. Farmers have increased the harvest yield of food crops like tomatoes by growing them from seeds that have been modified to produce a toxin that is harmful to insects. This is an example of A) Spraying insecticide on plants. B) Cloning. C) Genetic engineering. D) Selective breeding. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Genetic engineering. 5. Why are buffers used in Electrophoresis? A) Dissolve excess DNA. B) Conduct electricity. C) Remove salts. D) Add extension energy. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Conduct electricity. 6. Developing a personal ..... can help you to identify values, principles, and rules of behavior to keep you, your family, and your colleagues safe. A) Login. B) Profile. C) Code of ethics. D) Digital character. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Code of ethics. 7. Protein that cuts DNA at specific sites A) Nucleotide. B) Gel Electrophoresis. C) Restriction enzyme. D) Vector. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Restriction enzyme. 8. Which is NOT true of cloning? A) Cloning is always successful. B) It is also known as Somatic Cell Nuclear transfer. C) It makes identical copies of a gene, tissue or organism. D) It can clone an baby giraffe from a giraffe body cell. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Cloning is always successful. 9. What exactly is a designer baby? A) A child that has been engineered to have specific traits (phenotypes) based on it's lipids. B) A child that has been engineered to have specific traits (phenotypes) based on it's RNA. C) A child that has been engineered to have specific traits (phenotypes) based on it's DNA. D) A child that has been engineered to have specific traits (phenotypes) based on it's carbohydrates. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) A child that has been engineered to have specific traits (phenotypes) based on it's DNA. 10. As a result of only having 1 X chromosomes, males are less susceptible to recessive X-linked disorders. A) False. B) True. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) False. 11. Molecular "scissors" that cut DNA at a specific recognition sequence: A) Plasmid. B) Gene. C) Restriction enzymes. D) Recombinant DNA. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Restriction enzymes. 12. Rice modified to have more Vitamin A is an example of A) Artificial selection. B) Genetic engineering. C) Cloning. D) Gene mutation. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Genetic engineering. 13. Humans with genetic diseases can have a gene inserted into their body using a virus. This is called: A) Gene therapy. B) Cloning. C) DNA fingerprinting. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Gene therapy. 14. The thin membrane protecting the sclera A) Conjunctiva. B) Retina. C) Cornea. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Conjunctiva. 15. Transgenic Plants are now an important part of our local food supply A) False. B) True. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) True. 16. Eliminating ..... could be a great health challenge for the 21st century, just as eliminating smallpox was in the 20th. A) Hereditary disease. B) Super soldiers. C) GM foods. D) Designer babies. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Hereditary disease. 17. Small circular strand of DNA A) Vector. B) Gene. C) Nucleotide. D) Plasmid. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Plasmid. 18. Causes an abnormally large amount of mucus to be produced in the digestive tract and the lungs A) Cystic Fiborsis. B) Tay-Sachs. C) Polydactyly. D) Sickle-Cell Anemia. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Cystic Fiborsis. 19. Codons-what do they do? A) Code for amino acids. B) Create clones. C) Make DNA. D) Copy DNA. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Code for amino acids. 20. Which statement best describes a characteristic of the carrying capacity of an ecosystem? A) It can be illustrated within a food web. B) It allows organisms to produce populations of unlimited size. C) It is determined directly by an organism's reproductive success. D) It is limited by the habitat's available energy and nutrient. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) It is limited by the habitat's available energy and nutrient. 21. Transgenic OrganismProduced by the insertion of restriction DNA into the ..... of a host organism A) Genome. B) Egg. C) Gene. D) Organism. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Genome. 22. How do scientists make many copies of segments of DNA? A) Restriction enzyme. B) DNA finger printing. C) Transformation. D) PCR. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) PCR. 23. Which of these is an example of a genotype? A) Green eyes. B) Bb or BB. C) Short heighth. D) Brown hair. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Bb or BB. 24. The change of DNA code A) Genetic engineering. B) Selective breeding. C) Inbreeding. D) Hybridization. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Genetic engineering. 25. Of or relating to an organism whose DNA has been altered by the transfer of genes from another species or breed A) Transgenic. B) Sterile. C) Species. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Transgenic. 26. Which of the following is NOT a stage in Genetic Engineering? A) Isolation. B) Expression. C) Adaptation. D) Insertion. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Adaptation. 27. Which of the following statements is true of all genetically engineered organisms? A) They are produced by breeding only the individuals with desired traits. B) They have a genome that is identical to their parents' genome. C) They are made using half the genomes of two different species. D) They contain genes transferred from another organism. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) They contain genes transferred from another organism. 28. A DNA molecule produced by combining DNA from different sources is referred to as A) Mutant. B) Polyploid. C) Recombinant. D) Diploid. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Recombinant. 29. CRISPR can change DNA in humans and animals. What did scientists look at to help them create CRISPR? A) Sheep cloning. B) Palindromic repeats. C) Common Cold. D) Bacteria fighting off viruses. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Bacteria fighting off viruses. 30. Using gene knockout organisms can reveal the function of a gene by ..... A) Helping to clone an organism. B) Rearranging the sequence of an organism's genes. C) Showing the effect of turning off a gene. D) Comparing the DNA fingerprints to determine parents. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Showing the effect of turning off a gene. ← 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 8Genetic Engineering Quiz 9 🏠 Back to Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books