This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Agriculture > Biotechnology > Genetic Engineering > Genetic Engineering – Quiz 82 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Genetic Engineering Quiz 82 (30 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. What chemical base is paired up with Thymine? A) Guanine. B) Adenine. C) Thymine. D) Cytosine. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Adenine. 2. Natural selection A) Organisms better adapted to their environment tend to survive and produce more offspring. B) Process used by humans to develop new organisms with desirable characteristics. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Organisms better adapted to their environment tend to survive and produce more offspring. 3. Protein synthesis is accomplished primarily by the interaction of which two cell structures? A) Vacuoles and mitochondria. B) Ribosomes and vacuoles. C) Nucleus and ribosomes. D) Nuclei and mitochondria. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Nucleus and ribosomes. 4. Animals can be cloned using embryo transplantation. A) False. B) True. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) True. 5. What pest is GM maize resistant to? A) Drought. B) Pests. C) Weedkiller. D) Corn borer. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Corn borer. 6. In which generation did cage 1 reach 100% mutation? A) 8th. B) 7th. C) 11th. D) 12th. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) 11th. 7. Changing the DNA of a organism is called A) Inbreeding. B) Hybridization. C) Genetic engineering. D) Selective breeding. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Genetic engineering. 8. Insertion, deletion, and substitution are all examples of a change in a genetic sequence which is also referred to as (a) A) Gene. B) Ribose. C) Amino Acid. D) Mutation. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Mutation. 9. Enzymes that cut DNA molecules at specific places A) Work only on bacterial DNA. B) Are restriction enzymes. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Are restriction enzymes. 10. Is the basic physical unit of inheritance. A) Chromosome. B) Gene. C) Plasmid. D) DNA. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Gene. 11. Bacteria also may contain extra DNA (extra, as in, NOT part of their one chromosome) in the form of ..... even smaller circular pieces of DNA. A) Enzymes. B) Plasmids. C) Centromeres. D) Nucleotides. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Plasmids. 12. If a single nucleotide base is added or deleted the entire reading frame will? A) Shift, causing a deletion. B) Move, causing an addition. C) Shift, causing a frameshift mutation. D) Move, causing a delection. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Shift, causing a frameshift mutation. 13. It is when tiny segments of a gene are taken out and replaced by different genes A) Genetic Engineering. B) Cutting. C) Gene Splicing. D) Transgenic Organisms. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Gene Splicing. 14. The purpose of ethical guidelines are A) To ensure participants are paid for their time. B) To ensure researchers do what they like. C) To ensure the study gets valid responses. D) To ensure participants are safe. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) To ensure participants are safe. 15. Most currently available GMO foods are A) Nutrition. B) Drinks. C) Animal. D) Plants. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Plants. 16. The hybridization between the sense and antisense mRNAs renders the mRNA ..... A) Effective. B) Ineffective. C) Very effective. D) None of thes. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Ineffective. 17. What is one reason why people are against genetic engineering? A) There is a high risk of failure. B) It has a 100% success rate. C) People do not like dogs. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) There is a high risk of failure. 18. What is the process of separating DNA fragments by size for comparison purposes? A) Cloning. B) Bacterial transformation. C) Gene therapy. D) Gel electrophoresis. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Gel electrophoresis. 19. Human cloning is considered completely ethical and legal all around the world. A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) False. 20. Which of the following is not a transgenic organism? A) A gene knockout mouse that has a specific gene turned off. B) A mouse that glows. C) A bacterium that makes human insulin. D) A strawberry plant that is resistant to frost damage. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) A gene knockout mouse that has a specific gene turned off. 21. Crops are often genetically engineered for improved traits. Such crops and organisms are called: A) Genetically modified organisms. B) Clones. C) Transformed. D) Nutritionally improved. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Genetically modified organisms. 22. What is bacterial transformation? A) When bacterial DNA turns into RNA. B) When bacterial DNA is dissolved by scientists. C) When bacterial DNA has new genes added to it. D) When bacterial DNA combines with a virus' DNA. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) When bacterial DNA has new genes added to it. 23. Can biotech foods cause allergic reactions in some people? A) Yes, but only if people eat large quantities of the biotech food. B) Yes, if the biotech food contains a gene from a food known to cause an allergic reaction. C) No. All biotech foods are hypoallergenic. D) No, because food allergies are psychological and not physical. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Yes, if the biotech food contains a gene from a food known to cause an allergic reaction. 24. Which of the following tools allows researchers to make highly specific changes in an organism's DNA? A) Cloning. B) Transformation. C) Gene editing. D) Hybridisation. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Gene editing. 25. Arabinose is used in the plates to A) Isolate and select for only the bacteria that have been successfully transformed. B) Give bacteria energy to grow. C) Act as a trigger to turn on the expression of the gene of interest. D) Give the bacteria a new trait (such as fluorescence or insulin production). Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Act as a trigger to turn on the expression of the gene of interest. 26. The small circular genes in bacteria. A) Plasmids. B) Chromosomes. C) RNA. D) DNA. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Plasmids. 27. The diagram is showing which procedure? A) Amniocentesis. B) Chorionic villus sampling. C) IVF. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Amniocentesis. 28. The goal of the Human Genome Project was to A) Treat patients with genetic diseases. B) Create maps showing where genes are located on human chromosomes. C) Identify people with genetic diseases. D) Create maps showing where chromosomes are located on human genes. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Create maps showing where genes are located on human chromosomes. 29. Why can't you drink salt water? A) It's hypotonic to your cells. B) It's hypertonic to your cells. C) It's paratonic to your cells. D) It's isotonic to your cells. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) It's hypertonic to your cells. 30. Using biotechnology to place 1 specific gene fron one organism into another organism (ie putting a glow gene from a jellyfish into a mouse) A) Genetic engineering. B) Gene testing. C) Inbreeding. D) Plasmid. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Genetic engineering. ← 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