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1
Term for manipulating the molecularbasis of inheritance through recombinant DNA?
A) restriction fragment length polymorphism(RFLP)
B) Mendelian genetics
D) DNA fingerprinting
C) biotechnology
2
All of the following are goals of biotechnologyEXCEPT:
D) generating economic benefits.
B) creating humans with higher intelligencelevels.
A) efficiently producing biologically importantmolecules.
C) improving agriculturally important foodplants.
3
The substances used to cut genes in recombinantDNA research are called:
B) replicases.
)DNA polymerases.
E) restriction enzymes.
C) RNA polymerases.
4
An organism that contains foreign DNA wasinserted into its own genetic material, is called:
A) foreign.
C) electrophoresed.
D) polygenic
B) transgenic.
5
Restriction enzymes:
D) can cut only bacterial DNA.
C) will cut DNA only if it contains methylgroups.
) Restriction enzymes:
produce single-strandedDNA fragments with "sticky ends."