Biotechnology Test Flashcards

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What is a possible drawback to using chemicals such as fertilizers and pesticides that increase crop yields?

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Runoff could pollute nearby water sources

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What is being used to produce a vaccine for the H1N1 virus?

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Tobacco Leaves

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If a new technology makes food easier to produce, what is likely to happen to the price of food?

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It will lower

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What are some goals of agricultural engineering?

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To make more and better crops using less water and less land.

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If all farmers use the same variety of crop, what outcome can be expected?

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Genetic diversity is lessened.

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How is food made available all year long?

What techniques are used to make it last?

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Vacuum seal, freezing, irradiation

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Traditional Biotechnology is…..

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The use of living organisms to solve problems and make useful productis

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What careers might someone who likes biotechnology pursue?

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Botanist, biotech engineer, agricultural engineer, meat processor

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What is irradiating foods?

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Radiating foods to kill bacteria.

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What is agricultural engineering?

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Making adjustments to farming practices using different crop varieties to produce more food with less land and less water.

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What are the 3 basic kinds of biotechnology tools?

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Working with cells, proteins, and genes.

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The healthcare industry is developing better ways to

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Diagnose, prevent, and treat disease.

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What field of science dealing with the microbial world has given us many advances in medicine, agriculture, genetics, and food science.?

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Biotechnology

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What crisis did farmers face in the 1990’s.

Why was this such an economic difficulty for NC?

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Insect infestation and rampant wheat growth wiped out cotton fields.
In the 1990’s NC was a huge textile manufacturer. Without cotton, these products couldn’t be made. Livestock feed was low too.

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What’s the relationship between fluctuations in population size and food supply?

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Cities and populations are only possible when agriculture is able to provide large crop yield. The amount of food can limit the growth of the human population.

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What do you farmers rely on for their crops to grow?

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A wide variety of technology, genetically engineered crops, fertilizers, and irrigation systems.

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Has agriculture changed since humans began farming?

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Agricultural engineering today includes technologies that have greatly improved since the early days of farming. Machinery and new varieties of disease resistant crops.

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Technology is essential to such purposes as….

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Sample collection and treatment, measurement, data collection and storage, computation, and communication of information.

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What are examples of traditional biotechnology?

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Domesticating and crops plants and farm animals through selective breeding, and using yeast to make bread rise and produce wine.

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New biotechnology involves…

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The use of the living cells and their molecules to solve problems and make useful products.

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The third wave of biotechnology applications is just beginning to emerge in…

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Energy in the environment, where living cells and their molecules can help us develop new methods to clean up our environment, detect environmental contamination, and reduce our dependence on petroleum.

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The microbial world has led to the emerging field of biotechnology which is given us many advances and new careers in….

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Medicine, agriculture, genetics, and food science.

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Uses of modern biotechnology include…

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Making medicine in large quantities, making human insulin for the treatment of diabetes, combating crime through DNA testing and forensic testing, removing pollution from soil and water (bioremediation), improving the quality of agricultural crops and livestock products.

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What does GM stand for?

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Genetic modification

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How is biotechnology being used in soybeans?

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To change the way we receive our medicines and generate millions of doses of vaccines in a small area.