Name:____________________ Date:_____________Living Environment Rabbi Goldberg

Genetic Application

Vocabulary

• ____________- any change in the base sequence of an organism DNA

• ____________- Process of making a group of genetically identical offspring from the cells of an organism

• _____________- transfer of genetic information from one organism to another

I. Genetic research a. Is the fastest growing ____________________________

i. Two very common areas if genetic research are 1. _____________________2. _____________________

II. Cloning a. _____________________________________________________

_____________________________________________________i. This is great in agriculture

1. ______________________________________________________________________________________

ii. We have cloned ___________________________________1. ___________________________________________

___________________________________________2. They clone from the __________________________

III. Genetic Engineering a. Genetic _______________________________________________

____________________________________________________i. This forms _______________________________________

1. New genes _________________________________ ___________________________________________

b. It has been ____________________________________________ _____________________________________________________

c. They then __________________________________________________________________________________________________________

i. HGH – helps with height ii. Insulin – Diabetesiii. etc..

d. Eventually, __________________________________________________________________________________________________________

IV. Selective Breeding a. There are ways ______________________________________

___________________________________________________b. AKA - Artificial selection

i. _________________________ii. _________________________ iii. __________________________

V. Inbreeding a. Is mating ( getting together) __________________________b. This method is _____________________________________

_________________________________________________________________________________________________________

c. The drawback to

_________________________________________________________________________________________________________.

d. Therefore people _______________________________________ _____________________________________________________

e. This leads to [pedigrees _ pure gene of one specie like a pedigree golden retriever etc…………………..

VI. Hybridizationa. As we stated before __________________________________

____________________________________________________.

b. __________________________________________________________________________________________________________

i. The ________________________________________________

c. When two __________________________________________ ___________________________________________________