Internal Assessment Resource
Achievement Standard Biology 91607 (v1): Demonstrate understanding of
human manipulations of genetic transfer and its biological implications
Resource title: Case Studies
Credits: 3
Achievement
Achievement with Merit
Demonstrate understanding of
human manipulations of genetic
transfer and its biological
implications.
Demonstrate in-depth
understanding of human
manipulations of genetic transfer
and its biological implications.
Achievement with Excellence
Demonstrate comprehensive
understanding of human
manipulations of genetic transfer
and its biological implications.
Student instructions
Introduction
This assessment activity requires you to prepare a written report that contains two case studies that
demonstrate your understanding of how humans can manipulate genetic transfer and the biological
implications of these. A case study uses the investigation of a specific example to examine general
principles.
You will be assessed on the comprehensiveness of your report and the extent to which you link
biological ideas about human manipulations of genetic transfer and its biological implications.
You must choose one example from either a transgenic organism or the modification of gene
expression in an organisms and one example from either selective breeding or whole organism
cloning.
The following are suggestions of possible contexts.
Selective breeding
Cloning
Transgenics
Modified expression
Crop
Bananas
Golden rice
Long life tomato
Farm animal
Grapes
Bt corn
High oil soya beans
Bird
Potato
Roundup ready rape
Pet
Cattle
Herbicide resistant sugar
beet
Pigs
Pets
Fungus resistant potato
Virus resistant squash
Antithrombin producing
goats
Cold tolerant Eucalyptus
Enviropig
Fast growing salmon
Working individually, you have approximately three weeks of in-class and out-of class time to write
your report. Your teacher may provide you with extra resource material and/or suggest sites for
research or possible new directions.
Conditions
You will have at least 2 weeks of class time (including structured lessons) and 3 weeks of
homework (including holidays to complete these case studies.
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There will be no more than two people for each specific species case study
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Each student will have a unique combination of case studies
You will receive feedback form the dot-jot stage of the task via Moodle
Task
Part 1
Research you two case studies and for each prepare a dot-jot (bullet point) summary of.

Biological idea relating to the method of manipulation of gene transfer

Biological implications of each method
Part 2
Write a report that compares these two methods of the human manipulation of genetic transfer and
the biological implications of each. In your speech:

outline the biological ideas to explain how humans manipulate genetic transfer in the two
selected cases

explain the biological implications of each manipulation, such as the impact on:

–
ecosystems
–
genetic biodiversity
–
health or survival of individuals
–
survival of populations
–
evolution of populations.
link the biological ideas about each manipulation to at least two biological implications in each
case. The linking of ideas will involve comparing and contrasting aspects of the manipulations.
You could use diagrams or models to illustrate concepts and give examples of real-life applications
where appropriate.
Milestones
Milestone 1: Case selection
Friday June 13
Milestone 2: Dot-jot
Thursday July 3
Milestone 3: Due date
Monday July 28 3.30pm
General reading
http://www.brown.edu/ce/adult/arise/resources/docs/yw10_1.pdf
http://www.bionetonline.org/english/content/ff_cont3.htm
salmon
http://erepository.law.shu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1311&context=student_scholarship&seiredir=1&referer=http%3A%2F%2Fscholar.google.co.nz%2Fscholar%3Fq%3Dgenetically%2Bmodif
ied%2Bsalmon%26btnG%3D%26hl%3Den%26as_sdt%3D0%252C5#search=%22genetically%20m
odified%20salmon%22
http://science.kennesaw.edu/~jdirnber/Bio2108/Lecture/LecEvolution/TransgeneSalm.pdf
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC438972/
Salt tolerant crops
http://www.thenakedscientists.com/HTML/news/news/1760/
GM crops
http://cib.org.br/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/estudos_alimentares06.pdf
http://jxb.oxfordjournals.org/content/54/386/1317.full
http://ask-force.org/web/Bt/OCallaghan-Effects-Plants-Genetically-2005.pdf
http://www.ask-force.org/web/Benefits/Phipps-Park-Benefits-2002.pdf
http://www.biol.uw.edu.pl/pl/files/docs/st_dokt/SD_SCB_TREE2000.pdf
http://www.ask-force.org/web/biodiversity/Dale-Pot-Imp-nbt0602-567.pdf
http://bmb.oxfordjournals.org/content/56/1/62.full.pdf
http://www.e-library.lt/resursai/ES/Leidiniai/EEA_issue_reports/GMOsforwww.pdf
Protein enhanced rice
http://www.ask-force.org/web/Africa-Harvest-Sorghum-Lit-1/Wu-et-al-Plant-Biotech-J-2003.pdf
Enhances potato
http://www.gmo-compass.org/eng/grocery_shopping/crops/23.genetically_modified_potato.html
rapeseed
http://www.gmo-compass.org/eng/safety/environmental_safety/185.rapeseed.html
Potato
http://www.gmo-compass.org/eng/safety/environmental_safety/183.potato.html
Transgenic animals
http://www.researchgate.net/publication/6124633_Transgenic_farm_animals_an_update/file/f3df2af
1e895ffdb3815a55f4a8a9342.pdf
Goats
http://www.sciencebasedmedicine.org/recombinant-human-antithrombin-milking-nanny-goats-forbig-bucks/
http://www.researchgate.net/publication/12966532_Production_of_goats_by_somatic_cell_nuclear_t
ransfer/file/d912f5098103a9392b.pdf
http://www.managedcaremag.com/archives/0903/0903.biotech.html
animal cloning
http://www.dimet.org/courses/modelli_animali/Vajta_AnimReprodSci06.pdf
http://animalscience.ag.utk.edu/utcloneproject/pdf/aji_064a%2062303.pdf
http://www.biomedcentral.com/content/pdf/1477-7827-1-98.pdf
http://www.biolreprod.org/content/66/5/1283.long
http://vet.hcmuaf.edu.vn/data/file/application%20of%20biotechnology%20of%20animal%20health%
20and%20production%20/Animal%20cloning%20problems%20and%20prospects.pdf
Plant cloning
http://www.buzzle.com/articles/benefits-of-cloning-plants.html
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2001/07/0726_wirebanana.html