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Chapter 2: Applications of Biology

Chapter 2: Applications of Biology. Vocabulary. Biometrics Genetics Biome Genome Epidemiology Vaccination Genetic engineering Ecology Environmental science Use the table to define as many words as you can. . Health in the 21 st century.

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Chapter 2: Applications of Biology

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  1. Chapter 2: Applications of Biology

  2. Vocabulary Biometrics Genetics Biome Genome Epidemiology Vaccination Genetic engineering Ecology Environmental science Use the table to define as many words as you can.

  3. Health in the 21st century What is the relationship between copepods and cholera and why is it important?

  4. How did Colwell develop a better method for detecting cholera in water that had previously tested negative? Why were the bacteria not detected before? How does the cholera example show that science is an integrated field of study?

  5. Vaccinations Explain where vaccines come from and how they work to fight disease.

  6. Why do people study genetics? What is the Human Genome Project? What is a genome?

  7. Biology and Human Potential List at least three assistive technologies. What is genetic engineering? How is genetic engineering used? What’s so special about Bt corn?

  8. Diabetes is a disease that is regulated by insulin. How has the production of insulin changed in recent years? What does nano stand for and what does it tell you about the size of the robots used in nanotechnology?

  9. Forensic Science What is biometrics? What’s the difference between fingerprinting and DNA fingerprinting? Which do you think is the more accurate and why?

  10. What are some ethical concerns faced by society that relate to genetically modified organisms? How do you feel about the possibility of information about you used improperly?

  11. Advances in biotechnology have resulted in all of the following, except Development of synthetic hormones Development of iris scanning to establish identity. Cloning of animals Cloning of humans

  12. Explain the difference between ecology and environmental science.

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