BIOTECHNOLOGY STUDY GUIDE (H)
Major Learnings:
There are distinct patterns in the organization of nature.
Essential and Guiding Questions:
1. How does biotechnology affect society and the environment?
Be able to:
 Model the steps of recombinant DNA technology.
 Model the steps of somatic cell cloning.
 Interpret a DNA fingerprint.
 Discuss the ethical considerations of genetic engineering.
 Describe the process of differentiation and how this process relates to gene activation or
deactivation.
 Explain how genetic engineering has impacted the fields of medicine, forensics and agriculture
(eg., selective breeding, gene splicing, cloning, genetically modified organisms, gene therapy)
VOCABULARY TERMS
Blastocyst
Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR)
Differentiation
Polyploidy
DNA Fingerprint
Radiation/Chemical Induced Mutations
DNA Ligase
Recombinant DNA
Enucleated Egg
Reproductive Cloning
Epigenetic Marks
Restriction Enzymes
Epigenetics
Selective Breeding
Epigenome
Somatic Cell
Gel Electrophoresis
Somatic Cell Nuclear Transfer (SCNT)
Gene Cloning/Splicing
Stem Cells
Gene Therapy
Sticky Ends
Genetically Modified Organism (GMO)
Surrogate
Hybrid/hybridization
Therapeutic Cloning
Inbreeding
Transformation
Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells (iPS)
Transgenic Organism
Inner Cell Mass (ICM)
Vector
Plasmid