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- 3. Scientist are trying to genetically modify coffee beans so there____.
- 4. Skin tone is an________ __________ through genetics.
- 5. This is what RNA stands for.
- 6. Selective herbicides kill specific targets while leaving the desired crop unharmed. Some of these act by interfering with the growth of weed and are often ____ ____ of natural plant hormones.
- 12. Global Seed Vault The Doomsday seed Vault (Norwegian: Svalbard globale frøhvelv) is a secure seedbank on the Norwegian island of Spitsbergen near Longyearbyen in the remote Arctic Svalbard archipelago, about 1,300 kilometres (810 mi) from the North Pole. This is done to ensure enough seeds to survive, n case a disaster happens. But is also known as: ______ ______ _______ ______ ______.
- 14. _____________ is the part of a chromosome that links sister chromatids. During mitosis, spindle fibers attach to the __________ via the kinetochore
- 16. companies created golden rice a GMO speices of rice to help fight malnutrion in devoleping countries.
- 17. This is a soil bacterium that produces insecticidal toxins.
- 20. enlarged part of an underground stem that contains stored food. Potatoes are tubers “eyes=tiny buds” that can form a new potato plant. How you plant potatoes. Great potato famine.
- 22. The only two cells that stop reproducing after a certain age are the brain cells and ______ _______.
- 23. Chromosomes that are similar in shape length and gene arrangement are called________________.
- 25. Genetically modified foods can have big impacts on some human's healths, due to _________.
- 27. ______________ is a form of agamogenesis in which an unfertilized egg develops into a new individual. ___________ occurs naturally in many plants, invertebrates (e.g. water fleas, rotifers, aphids, stick insects, some ants, bees and parasitic wasps), and vertebrates (e.g. some reptiles, amphibians,rarely birds). In plants, apomixis may or may not involve parthenogenesis.
- 29. The ability of grow lost or damaged body parts. Hydra, Planaria, Starfish and earth worm. More complex animals less able to re-grow parts. Crab can re-grow a claw. Some reptiles can re-grow a tail. Most mammals can repair damaged tissue, but can not regrow missing parts.
- 30. ________ is a form of asexual reproduction that occurs when a parent cell pushes out part of its wall forming a buldge or a bud.
- 31. a double-stranded chromosome is also refered to as______.
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- 1. The female reproductive ovules contain the female gametophyte generation located inside the ovary at the base of the pistil.
- 2. Advantage: May provide immunity to hepatitis Food:Banana, what is the trait?
- 7. this is the company that owns 91% of all genetically modified crops totaling 167 million acres of land.
- 8. are substances meant for attracting, seducing, destroying or mitigating any pest. They are a class of biocide. The most common use of pesticides is as plant protection products.
- 9. golden rice is a variety of _____ _____ rice produced through genetic engineering to biosynthesize beta-carotene, a precursor of vitamin A, in the edible parts of rice.
- 10. Most ____ food nowadays are genetically modified.
- 11. In _______, the spindle fibers begin to contract and shorten. This action pulls th centromere apart, allowing one of each of the replicated strants to move to opposite ends(poles) of the cell.
- 13. refers to the accumulation of substances, such as pesticides, or other organic chemicals in an organism.It occurs when an organism absorbs a toxic substance at a rate greater than that at which the substance is lost.
- 15. This is what DNA stands for ___________ _____________ _____.
- 18. Herbicides are commonly known as __________.
- 19. This is the type of virus most papayas get, but are genetically modified to have less showing.
- 21. This is a process of heating food, which is usually a liquid, to a specific temperature for a predefined length of time and then immediately cooling it after it is removed from the heat. It is named after microbiologist Louis Pasteur for his work on his _____________ process. This process slows spoilage caused by microbial growth in the food.
- 24. This is the structure in a plant that contains the eggs and will later on become fruit. The fetillized eggs become seeds.
- 26. Also known as hormones is injected into cows to increase their mass for agri-cultural demands.
- 28. Bud or stem of one plant Is permanently attached to the stem or trunk of a very similar plant. The cambium layers grow together and form a single plant. Ex Apple trees.