science vocab

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Across
  1. 3. the use of living organisms to solve problems and make useful products
  2. 4. the amount of different life forms on earth or part of the earth
  3. 7. control the control of pests using other organism; such as predators
  4. 8. An alternative fuel for use in diesel engines that is made from natural renewable sources such animal fats or vegetable oils
  5. 10. The introduction of DNA into the nucleus of an oocyte, embryo, or other cell by injection through a very fine needle
  6. 11. the farming of plants and animals that live in water
  7. 12. mapping The process of determining where genes are located on individual chromosomes
  8. 13. to produce a product; the amount
  9. 15. taming of wild things
  10. 16. the production of crops or livestock for food or fiber
  11. 19. modified organism An organism (plant, animal, bacteria, or virus) that has had its genetic material changed
  12. 21. process of producing an exact copy of an organism by asexual means
Down
  1. 1. Taking genes from one species and inserting them into another species to get that trait expressed in the offspring.
  2. 2. to make impure or unusable by adding a harmful substance
  3. 5. culture growing plants in a laboratory from cells instead of seeds.
  4. 6. the use of organisms to clean contamination in the environment
  5. 9. breeding crossing of specific parents in order to get offspring with certain traits
  6. 14. The production of medicines or drugs in plants or domestic animals.
  7. 17. All the genetic material in the chromosomes of a particular organism
  8. 18. the offspring of two plants or animals of different breeds or species
  9. 19. engineering the science or practice of altering the genetic code transmitted by living organisms by splicing and recombining specific genetic units from their DNA
  10. 20. a set of moral principles and values