Genetic Technology Vocabulary

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Across
  1. 2. genetic material of an organism, contains the regions that code for proteins and those that do not code for proteins
  2. 3. biochemical scissors, cuts the DNA into smaller fragments at certain locations called restriction sites
  3. 5. process used to make multiple copies of a few segments of DNA
  4. 8. a bar code like picture created from a person's DNA, can be used to identify individual
  5. 10. DNA formed by splicing sections of DNA from different sources
  6. 11. a lab method used to separate mixtures of DNA or RNA according to the size of the fragment and to create a DNA fingerprint
  7. 12. organism that contains functional recombinant DNA from other sources
  8. 13. the breeding of organisms to produce desirable traits
  9. 14. circular strand of DNA in the cytoplasm of a bacterial cell
  10. 15. process of producing organisms that have identical DNA
Down
  1. 1. the branch of Biology that studies the structure, function, evolution, and mapping of genomes
  2. 4. undifferentiated cells that can specialize into any type of cell in the body
  3. 6. international scientific research project with the goal of determining the sequence of nucleotide base pairs and mapping all of the genes in the human genome
  4. 7. form of therapy that involves inserting corrected genes into a patient that has a genetic disease
  5. 9. inserting foreign DNA into a bacterial cell so that the bacteria produces proteins from the foreign DNA