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Mating between closely related individuals; insures that offspring are homozygous for most traits.
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Mating of an individual of unknown genotypes with an individual of known genotypes; can help determine the unknown genotype of the parent.
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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 the same or different speices
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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 a specific nucleotide sequence.
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A vector is a means by which DNA from another species can be carried into the host cell. Vectors may be biological or mechanical.
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It is a small ring of DNA found in a bacterial cell.
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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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Clones are genetically identical copies.
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The approximately 80,000 genes on the 46 human chromosomes.
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The genetic map that shows the location of genes on a chromosome.
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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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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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The idea that living organisms come, only from other living organisms, became a cornerstone of biology.
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It is a large, ordered structure, enclosed by a membrane,that carries out some life activities, such as growth and division
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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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