8 questions
Which of these things below is the process scientists use to clone?
Birthing Pods
Clonification
Nuclear Transfer
Dichrotious Teflourificious
Which things below are problems with cloning?
Low success rate
Ethical reasons
Clones are unhealthy
The technology doesn't exist yet
Proper DNA is hard to find
Clones are exact genetic copies of the DNA donor?
True
False
Which of these isn't a step of nuclear transfer?
Get an egg and remove the DNA
Get body cell from what you want to clone and put it into the egg
Zap the egg to fuse it with the new nucleus
Put the egg back into a female to give birth to a clone of the body cell donor
Cut the DNA using a restriction enzyme to place into the egg
Which of these isn't a step of gene splicing?
Place DNA you want to add into a virus and let it infect the cell
The restriction enzyme cuts open the DNA leaving sticky ends
New DNA is inserted into the old DNA mating at the sticky ends
DNA ligase bonds the new and old strands of DNA together
DNA polymerase adds new bases to the old DNA strand to insert the new DNA instructions
Genetic engineering isn't really used yet because of ethical reasons.
True
False
Which thing(s) below are reasons why gene therapy isn't used widely.
It can cause your body to attack itself because it recognizes the virus
The restriction enzyme could cut the DNA in the wrong spot causing cancer
Gene therapy doesn't work and we don't know how to get it to work yet
It can cause gills to form making the lungs useless and then you have to live in the water for the rest of your life
Which plant is the mystery Plant X?
Plant 1
Plant 2
Plant 3
None of them are