Sheltered Integrated Science 3-4
Mrs. Page
Name: _______________
Per: ____ Date: ________
Jurassic Park 2: Biotechnology Exam Review
Directions: Look at the corresponding assignments to answer the questions below. Turn
in your completed questions for homework credit on the day of your exam, 2/15/13.
#1 A Recipe for Traits
1. How is DNA like a “recipe”?
2. What is a physical trait? Give two examples.
Homework: Textbook reading, pgs. 70-72
3. What is the difference between a dominant gene and a recessive gene?
4. Why do children look like their parents or other relatives?
#2 Inherited Traits Activity
5. Which traits are more common - dominant traits or recessive traits? Why do you think
so?
Homework: Biotechnology reading
6. What is biotechnology and why is it important?
7. Describe 3 uses for biotechnology.
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2.
3.
#6 Biotechnology with Dog DNA
8. In the “Biotechnology with Dog DNA” activity, how did you use biotechnology to
change the physical traits of your dog?
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Sheltered Integrated Science 3-4
Mrs. Page
Name: _______________
Per: ____ Date: ________
#7 Let’s Clone a Mouse, #10 Cloning Dolly the Sheep, #11: Cloning Timeline
9. Why is Dolly the sheep so famous?
10. What is cloning?
11. Dolly was cloned by a process called somatic cell nuclear transfer. Draw and label a
picture to show how Dolly was cloned.
#8 Micropipeting Olympics
12. Why do scientists use micropipets?
Biotechnology Notes & #9 Biotechnology Study Guide
13. What is recombinant DNA?
14. What is a plasmid, and what does it have to do with recombinant DNA?
#10: Cloning in Focus
15. Use the chart below to list differences and similarities between embryo twinning and
somatic cell nuclear transfer. (We did this question together as a class.)
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Sheltered Integrated Science 3-4
Mrs. Page
Cloning
Name: _______________
Per: ____ Date: ________
Embryo Twinning
Somatic Cell Nuclear Transfer
Similarities
Differences
#12 Introduction to Transformation - pGLO Lab
16. What is transformation? (Use sentences or drawings to explain your answer.)
17. Fill in the chart below.
Item
Glow/Not glow?
Explanation - why/why not?
E. coli bacteria in
petri dish
pGLO plasmid not in
bacteria
E. coli bacteria with
pGLO plasmid
(transformed)
18. What actually made the bacteria glow? Write a sentence or draw/label a picture with
arrows to show how we ended up with glowing cells.
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