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Test Bank - Introduction to Biotechnology, 4th
Edition
Biotechnology - ANSWER: the commercialization of cell and molecular biology

Biotechnology - ANSWER: the use of living organisms, cells or cellular components
for the production of compounds or precise genetic improvement of living things for the
benefit of man

Karoly Ereky - ANSWER: Coined the term biotechnology in 1919

Karoly Ereky - ANSWER: Defined biotechnology as a process by which raw materials
could be biologically upgraded into socially useful products

Pre-1800 - ANSWER: Ancient

1800-mid 1900s - ANSWER: Classical

1950s-present - ANSWER: Modern

Cheese - ANSWER: One of the first direct products of biotechnology

Rennet, Sour milk - ANSWER: _______ + _______ = cheese

Yeast - ANSWER: Has been widely used to make bread, produce vinegar, alcoholic
beverages

Vinegar - ANSWER: Used successfully for food preservation

Classical - ANSWER: Period when scientific evidences helped solve the puzzle/s of
biotechnology and pave the path for new discoveries

Antonie van Leeuwenhoek - ANSWER: Observed bacteria through a single-lens
microscope

Louis Pasteur - ANSWER: Developed several vaccines; Revealed some of the
complex physiological processes that happen during fermentation

Louis Pasteur - ANSWER: Identified 3 types of fermentation

Gas
Alcohol
Acid - ANSWER: Three types of fermentation generates which three products
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Production of glycerine for making the explosive nitroglycerine - ANSWER:
Application of fermentation in World War I

Gregor Mendel - ANSWER: Proposed the presence of "units of heredity" (genes)
which formed the basis of genetics

Robert Brown - ANSWER: Discovered nucleus in cells

Friedrich Miescher - ANSWER: Reported nuclein, a compound consisting of nucleic
acid that he extracted from WBC

Heinrich Wilhelm Gottfried Von Waldeyer-Hartz - ANSWER: Coined the term
"chromosome" -an organized structure of DNA and protein present in cells

Chromosome - ANSWER: contained tightly coiled DNA

Thomas Hunt Morgan - ANSWER: Showed inheritance and the role of chromosomes
in inheritance by using fruit flies

Drosophila melanogaster - ANSWER: Fruit flies from Thomas Hunt Morgan

Thomas Hunt Morgan - ANSWER: Concluded that some traits are sex-linked, and
traits are carried on one of the sex chromosomes

Wilhelm Johannsen - ANSWER: Coined the term "gene", which was described as a
carrier of heredity

Wilhelm Johannsen - ANSWER: Coined the terms "genotype" and "phenotype"

Gene - ANSWER: Part of the DNA that codes for a characteristic

Genotype - ANSWER: Also known as genome

Genotype - ANSWER: Collection of genes, genetic constitution

Phenotype - ANSWER: Observable characteristic

The Eugenics Movement - ANSWER: Social movement based on the idea that
genetic features of human population can be improved through selective breeding and
sterilization
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