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Chapeter 4 Applied Genetics
Diabetes,Yeast,Vaccine
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Not Applicable
02/02/2005

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Diabetes
Definition
Level of sugar in blood rises;insulin treates this
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Yeast
Definition
____ Cells reproduce equickly
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Yeast Cells
Definition
Turns into protein "factories"
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Yeast Cell
Definition
Produces large amount of quantity
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Yeast Cell
Definition
One Example helps fight Hepatitis B
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Tobacco Mosiac
Definition
Attacks and damages tobacco and tomatoe plants
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Hybrid Vigor
Definition
Stonger,healthier
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Hepatitis B
Definition
Liver Disease
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Hybridization
Definition
The Crossing of two genetically different but related species of organisms
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Hybrid
Definition
Two Different Genes
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Recombinant
Definition
Two Different pieces of DNA
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Similarity
Definition
Something in commmon
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Inbreeding
Definition
Involves crossing plants or animals that have the same or similar sets of genes, rather than different genes.
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Vaccine
Definition
Cure
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Growth Hormone
Definition
Controls growth
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Genes
Definition
units of heredity;segments of DNA on chromosomes
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Ice-minus
Definition
helps to slow down the formation of frost on plants
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Hybridization
Definition
Breeders produce desired traits in the offspring by combining two or more different traits from parents. They used the technique called?
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Selective Breeding
Definition
crossing of plants or animals that have desirable characteristics to produca an offspring with those characteristics
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Insulin
Definition
Hormone that helps the level of sugar. Can be used to treat diabetes
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Plasmid
Definition
Ring of bacterial DNA
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Interferon
Definition
Protein normally produced by human body cells,helps the body fight viruses
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