Biotechnology in Agriculture
About the Lecture
The lecture Biotechnology in Agriculture by Georgina Cornwall, PhD is from the course Biotechnology.
Included Quiz Questions
Which of the following best describes marker-assisted breeding in agriculture?
- The use of DNA-fingerprinting technologies to select young plants with certain traits
- Comparison of bacterial growth characteristics using western blotting
- The use of primers in a specific region of the plant genome to replicate rDNA that codes for human peptides
- Completely sequencing a plant genome to study how it has evolutionarily changed
- The use of fluorescent dyes to determine where rDNA is located in the plant gene
Which of the following best describes biopharming?
- Insertion of a foreign gene coding for medically important proteins, such as therapeutic proteins, monoclonal antibodies, and vaccines, into plant cells
- Insertion of foreign RNA coding for medically important proteins, such as therapeutic proteins, monoclonal antibodies, and vaccines, into plant cells
- Insertion of foreign mRNA coding for medically important proteins, such as therapeutic proteins, monoclonal antibodies, and vaccines, into human cells
- Insertion of a foreign gene coding for medically important proteins, such as therapeutic proteins, monoclonal antibodies, and vaccines, into human cells
- Insertion of foreign mRNA coding for medically important proteins, such as therapeutic proteins, monoclonal antibodies, and vaccines, into plant cells
What are some of the important applications of biotechnology currently in use in medicine and agriculture? Select all that apply.
- Cloning human insulin genes in bacterial hosts
- Production of vaccines
- Introducing good copies of a gene (e.g., insulin gene) into cells where they are damaged (e.g., pancreas)
- Insertion of a bacterial pesticide gene into plants
- Introduction of plant-extract genes directly into humans to treat diseases
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Author of lecture Biotechnology in Agriculture
Georgina Cornwall, PhD
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