Vocabulary

1. a plant or animal that has parents of different species or varieties, ex. a collie-shepherd mix puppy
4. the production of medicines or drugs by using plants or animals
5. the act of making objects impure or unclean by mixture or contact
7. moral principles or values
8. engineering: the practice of modifying DNA by splicing and recombining it
10. modified organisms: a living organism that has had its genetic material altered; includes duplicating, deleting or inserting one or more new genes or altering the activities of an existing gene.
13. the introduction of DNA into the nucleus of an embryo or other cell by injection through a very fine needle.
15. the production of crops or livestock for food or fiber
18. breeding crossing of specific parents in order to get offspring with certain traits
19. the process of using DNA technology to produce an offspring that is genetically identical to its one parent

2. control the control of a population of one organism by another organism; generally the controlling organism is a predator or disease-causing organism of the species being controlled
3. am alternative fuel that is made from renewable resources and releases fewer pollutants
4. using living things, such as bacteria, to help fix a problem, specifically to clean up an environmental problem such as an oil spill
6. the farming of plants and animals that live in water
9. the use of living organisms or biological substances to solve problems or make useful products
11. the total amount of genetic information in the chromosomes of an organisms, including its genes and DNA sequences
12. the act of being tame or custom to domestic life; not wild
14. culture the separation of cells from each other and their growth in a container of liquid nutrients.
16. having genes from a different kind of organism transferred into its DNA
17. splicing a technique used to join segments of DNA to form a new genetic combination