Statistics for A Level Biology - Manipulating genomes

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Defintion	Keyword	% Correct
Small loops of DNA in prokaryotic cells	Plasmids	60%
A biomedical technology in molecular biology that can amplify a short length of DNA to thousands of millions of copies	Polymerase chain reaction	50%
Process used to separate proteins or DNA fragments of different sizes	Electrophoresis	40%
Endonuclease enzymes that cleave DNA molecules at specific recognition sites	Restriction enzymes	40%
In gene technology, anything that can carry/insert DNA into a host organism	Vector	40%
Enzyme that catalyses the joining of sugar and phosphate groups within DNA	DNA ligase	30%
A technique that allows genes to be isolated and read	DNA sequencing	30%
Method for introducing a vector with a novel gene into a cell	Electroporation	0%
Gene therapy by inserting functional alleles into gametes or zygotes	Germ line gene therapy	0%
Gene therapy by inserting functional alleles into body cells	Somatic cell gene therapy	0%