Chapter 13- Genetic Engineering

Question 1

Selective breeding

Answer 1

When you allow only animals with desired characteristics to produce the next generation inv

Question 2

Inbreeding

Answer 2

The continued breeding of individuals with similar characteristics

Question 3

Increasing variation

Answer 3

Intentionally creating mutations

Question 4

Gene therapy

Answer 4

For people who have a disease they go in and change he gene for the disease and cure it

Question 5

Gene editing

Answer 5

This changes the human race

Question 6

Why are the consequences of CRISPR impossible to foresee? I

Answer 6

Bc genes are polygenic which means they control lots things. You might fix one thing and screw up another

Question 7

Transgenic organism

Answer 7

Organisms that contain genes from other species

Question 8

Explain the process of cloning

Answer 8

They take a cell from a highly reproductive tissue of a donor. Then they take an egg from a female sheep. They take the nucleus out of it. After that they take the donor cell and inject it into the egg. (By doing this they’re artificially fertilizing it) now they put the egg into a surrogate and the clone is born as an identical copy of the donor