Aspects of Biotechnology
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Directions: Answer the following questions as your read through these pages.
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13. Describe three wide range applications of biotechnology?
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1. What is biotechnology?
14. How can biotechnology help treat medical disorders caused by damaged or missing
genes?
2.
Describe two ways biotechnology has been used by farmers.
3.
How do most people think of biotechnology today?
4.
What do today’s biotechnologists engineer and use organisms for?
16. What do biotechnologists hope to find to control rot in the North Carolina Fraser Fir
Tree?
5.
In order to alter the genes of a living organism effectively, what must scientists
understand?
17. Describe two ways biotechnology can help increase food production.
6.
What is a genome?
7.
What is The Human Genome Project?
8.
What are genes? (hint…look at the picture)
15. What two things can researchers get bacteria to produce by genetically altering
them?
18. Describe two concerns about the development of biotechnology.
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19. What do people do in bioinformatics?
20. Why do you think bioinformatics important?
9.
How many genes do scientists estimate are in human chromosomes?
21. What subject matter might a biology student focus on if going into biotechnology?
10. What other organisms have scientists completed DNA sequencing on or are
working on currently?
11. Once the genes within a particular genome are identified what do scientists do
with it?
22. What will a computer science student work with in biotechnology?
23. What does a clinical research scientist do?
24. Why does the field of Biotechnology have to worry about laws and safety?
12. Which organism does the human genome have many genes similar in sequence
with?
25. What do safety experts do?
26. What do specialists do?