Animal Biotechnology MCQs Part 2

1. Lothar Hennighausen group was able to produce a pig expressing large quantities of __________

• Whey acidic protein (WAP)
• tertiary structures of protein
• growth factors
• attachment factors

2. The Worlds first transgenic primate is known as _______

• UTDi
• GENi
• CLONi
• ANDi

3. The oncomouse is also known as ________mouse

• Pheladelphia
• Ohio
• Smart
• Harvard

4. Gene targeting in mouse embryonic stem cells has become the gold standard for determinination of gene _________ in mammals

• function
• structure
• analysis
• group

5. Gene therapy is a technique for __________ the defective genes responsible for disease development

• altering
• replacing
• correcting
• analysing

6. In gene therapy, the abnormal gene could be repaired through selective ___________, that returns the gene to its normal function

• alteration
• reverse mutation
• removal
• retrival

7. Restriction enzymes can be used to _____________

• join up bits of dna
• inhibit the activity of transfer RNA
• 'snip' DNA with great precision at certain known base sequences
• stop the transcription of DNA into messenger RNA

8. Transgenic mice lacking the gene for a dopamine re-uptake pump (Giros et al 1996) have been shown to _____________

• produce more dopamine
• be behaviourally less active
• be very sensitive to the effects of alcohol
• be insensitive to the effects of amphetamine and cocaine

9. Mice that have had the gene for the serotonergic 5-HT1B 'knocked out' _____________

• drink twice as much alcohol as normal
• are very sensitive to the effects of alcohol
• become hyperactive after ingesting alcohol
• are less aggressive

10. Prokaryotic cellular contents are enclosed in a__________ and then surrounded by a__________

• capsule, cell wall
• cytoplasm, cell wall
• plasma membrane, cell wall
• cell membrane, capsule

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