Selective Breeding and Genetic Engineering Quiz

Which practice is described in the following statement. Individuals with desirable characteristics are bred together to produce offspring with those characteristics; this process is repeated over many generations.

All of the following are characteristics that humans would want to enhance in plants – Taste, yield, disease resistance, drought resistance and flavour. What is the common feature amongst these characteristics?

Which of the following is a realistic scenario:

Which practice is described in the following statement: Modifying the genome of an organism to introduce desirable characteristics

[question number = 02.5] Which of the following is a risk of genetic engineering of crops?

Which of the following are ethically consistent reasons we might carry out genetic engineering and selective breeding?

Which of the following is a potential risk of farming large numbers of individual animals or plants with very similar genomes.

Leaves, pathogens, genes, stems

Why might we choose to perform genetic modification rather than use selective breeding in the following scenario?

There is a sudden need for camels to be drastically smaller, we need to have a population of small camels within 10 years.

Why might we choose to perform genetic modification rather than use selective breeding in the following scenario?

There is demand in the marketplace for farmed fish that tastes like beef. 

When performing genetic engineering of bacteria, why do we use the same restriction enzyme to cut out the DNA from an organism and to cut open the plasmid?

What is the role of ligase in genetic engineering using bacterial plasmids?