Across
- 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
Down
- 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