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What is Inbreeding?
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Mating between closely related individuals; insures that offspring are homozygous for most...
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What is test cross?
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Mating of an individual of unknown genotypes with an individual of known genotypes; can help...
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What is genetic engineering?
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Method of cutting DNA from one organism and insertingthe DNA fragment into a host organismof...
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What is recombinant DNA?
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DNA made by recombining fragments of DNA from different sources
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What is a transgenic organism?
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Organisms that contain functional recombinant DNA from a different organism.
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What is a Restriction enzyme?
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They are bacterial proteins that have the ability to cut both strands of the DNA molecule at...
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What is a vector?
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A vector is a means by which DNA from another species can be carried into the host cell. Vectors...
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What is a Plasmid?
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It is a small ring of DNA found in a bacterial cell.
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What is gene splicing?
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The foreign DNA is recombined into a plasmid or viral DNA with the help of the second enzyme.
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What are Clones?
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Clones are genetically identical copies.
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What is Human Genome?
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The approximately 80,000 genes on the 46 human chromosomes.
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What is a linkage map?
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The genetic map that shows the location of genes on a chromosome.
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What is Gene Therapy?
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It is the insertion of normal genes into human cells to correct genetic disorders.
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What are the nine phases?
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Interphase, Prophase1,Metaphase1, Anaphase1,Telophase1,Prophase2,Metaphase2, Anaphase2,Telophase2
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What is a fossil?
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It is evidence of an organism that lived long ago.
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What is spontaneous generation?
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The idea that nonliving material can produce life
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What is biogenesis?
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The idea that living organisms come, only from other living organisms, became a cornerstone...
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What is protocell?
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It is a large, ordered structure, enclosed by a membrane,that carries out some life activities,...
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What is artificial selection?
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Breeding organisms with specific traits in order to produce offspring with identical traits
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What is Natural Selection
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It is a mechanism for change in populations.
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