Biotechnology Worksheet - jc097.k12.sd.us



Biotechnology Worksheet

Name: ________________

Complete the following questions using the Biotechnology PowerPoint on the class webpage. Use complete sentences when answering the questions. When you are finished e-mail the assignment to josh.christiansen@k12.sd.us

1. What is the core of biotechnology?

2. How did biotechnology begin in the 1940’s?

3. Who identified the structures of DNA?

4. When was the genetic code worked out for biotechnology?

5. What was discovered in the 1970’s pertaining to biotechnology?

6. *What are restriction enzymes?

7. What are the 3 parts of a nucleotide?

8. What makes up the genes

9. How are genes organized?

10. What makes up the genetic info of the cell or genome?

11. Explain the nucleotides.

12. How are DNA bases always paired?

13. When does a double helix form?

14. How do the two strands run? Explain

15. What are the 3 reasons that DNA are unique?

16. How many base pairs are in a human cell?

17. *What is an angstrom?

18. What are two functions of DNA?

19. How do proteins express genetic info?

20. How is the DNA of a nucleus stored?

21. What forms the chromosome?

22. What are plasmids?

23. What is transcription?

24. What is mRNA and what does it do?

25. What is tRNA and what does it do?

26. What is rRNA and what does it do?

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