Zusammenfassung der Ressource
3.5 Genetic Modification
and Biotechnology
- Nature of Science
- Risks associated with
GM crops or livestock
- Monarch butterflies vs Bt crops
- PCR
- Can be used to amplify
small amounts of DNA
- DNA profiling
- Analysis of examples
of DNA profiles
- Paternity and Forensic
investigations
- Cloning
- Many plants and some animals
have natural methods of cloning
- Animals can be cloned at the embryo
stage by breaking up the embryo into
more than one group of cells
- Aim 6
- One factor affecting the
rooting of stem-cuttings
- Cloning adults animals
using differentiated cells
- Somatic-cell nuclear transfer
- Dolly
- Gene transfer to bacteria
- Restriction endonucleases
- Plasmids
- DNA ligase
- TOK
- The use of DNA for securing
convictions in legal cases
- What criteria are
necessary for assessing
the reliability of evidence?