EXPLORING BIOTECHNOLOGY

Unit 1 – Introduction to Biotechnology – Study Guide

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Answer the following questions using your notes, handouts, and assignments.

1. What are the four major areas of biotechnology?

Food and Consumer Goods, Agriculture,
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Medicine, and Environment
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2. What is the definition of biotechnology?

The use of cells and biological cells to make
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a product or solve a problem
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3. “New” biotechnology is based on changing organisms (living things) using what?

DNA
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4. Gregor Mendel is known as the father of which branch of science?

Genetics
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5. Which notable figure in the history of biotechnology is known as the Father of Medicine?
Hippocrates
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6. Which notable figures in the history of biotechnology are known for initiating (starting) the multibillion-
dollar industry of biotechnology?
Stanly Cohen & Herbert Boyer
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7. Who produced early data critical to the discovery of DNA, but was not given credit for her work because
she was a woman?
Rosalind Franklin
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8. Who was the first surgeon to successfully separate Siamese twins joined at the head?
Dr. Ben Carson
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9. Who described the structure of DNA and described how DNA carries genetic information?
James Watson & Francis Crick
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10. Who headed the team that cloned Dolly using DNA from adult sheep cells and is know for ground-
breaking research and is an expert on cloning?
Dr. Ian Wilmut
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11. Who created a vaccine for rabies and pasteurized milk to kill bacteria?
Louis Pasteur
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12. When did the word biotechnology first appear in print?

1919
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13. What is the definition of the prefix bio?

Life, of living things
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14. When microbes are grown so that their amino acids can be used to produce a product such as Equal®
sweetner it is an example of:
Food and consumer goods
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15. Genetically altered crops that can grow in exceptionally dry or wet, hot or cold climates are an example
of:
Agriculture
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16. Flu vaccine in the form of a nasal spray is an example of:

Medicine
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17. Upon which industries was North Carolina’s economy based in the past?
Furniture, textiles, and tobacco
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18. What is North Carolina’s current ranking in the United States for biotechnology?
3rd
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19. Which product of yeast metabolism caused the balloon to inflate during our lab?
Carbon dioxide
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20. To prepare for a job in the biotechnology field, it is important to take science and biotechnology classes,
but you should also take which kinds of classes?
Business and writing
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