Genetic Engineering Quiz 107 (20 MCQs)

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1. The base pair guanine always pairs with which other base pair?

Correct Answer: C) Cytosine.

2. The process of DNA Fingerprinting is based on the fact that

Correct Answer: B) No 2 people, except identical twins, have exactly the same DNA as someone else.

3. What is an example of selective breeding by farmers?

Correct Answer: B) Mating 2 large chickens to create more large chickens.

4. Member of a population of genetically identical cells produced from a single cell (Dolly the sheep is our most famous example)

Correct Answer: A) Clone.

5. THE DELIBERATE CHANGING OF CHARACTERISTIC OF AN ORGANISM BY MANIPULATING ITS GENETIC MATERIAL

Correct Answer: B) GENETIC ENGINEERING.

6. DNA cloning is

Correct Answer: A) Adding the same DNA.

7. Why do bacteria have restriction enzymes?

Correct Answer: A) To prevent being infected by viruses.

8. Genetically engineered DNA that has genes from one species inserted into the DNA of another

Correct Answer: A) Recombinant DNA.

9. Breeding genetically similar organisms that can result in a genetic defect is

Correct Answer: D) Inbreeding.

10. Gene cloning involves only these three steps:isolation, transformation, and selection, when making copies of a gene

Correct Answer: B) False.

11. In 1982 (1982), the first living thing to be genetically modified was

Correct Answer: B) Insulin-producing bacteria.

12. How many valves does the heart have?

Correct Answer: B) 4.

13. What does a bacterial cell that has received genetic information from another organism use its coded instructions to produce?

Correct Answer: C) A new type of protein.

14. A mutation that has NO effect on an organism's ability to survive and reproduce

Correct Answer: C) Neutral mutation.

15. When the smooth strain (S strain) was injected, did the mice live or die?

Correct Answer: B) Die.

16. Antibiotic resistance in organisms is the result of what process?

Correct Answer: B) Evolution.

17. To produce desired protein ..... should be taken from any source like human, animal and plant.

Correct Answer: B) Target DNA.

18. In genetic engineering, the transfer of hereditary informationfrom one species to another results in the formation of

Correct Answer: B) Recombinant DNA.

19. What is Crispr technology used for?

Correct Answer: C) Identify and edit Dna.

20. The change in the characteristics/traits of an organism resulting from the uptake of foreign DNA

Correct Answer: B) Transformation.