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Genetic Engineering And Virus
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Answer 49 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Explain the application of application of genetic engineering
Clone
It is inserted into an organism and the organism uses that foreign DNA as its own
Reverse transcription
Virus
2. Another word for lytic
Shapes
Capsids
Host
Viriulent
3. A worldwide outbreak of a disease
Shapes
Pandemic
Transmission
Through sneezing or touching
4. A circular piece of single stranded RNA that can cause disease found in plants
Genetic disease
Viroid
Gene splicing
Transmission
5. Rejoining of DNA
Genes left behind by the DNA after it is gone
DNA and RNA
Virus
Gene splicing
6. How are viruses classified?
Plants dont have the plasmids or kinds of viruses needed for taking up the foreign pieces of DNA that bacterial cells have
Lysogenic
Made up of cells - level of organization - able to reproduce - able to grow and develop - responds to stimuli - uses energy
Nucleic acid - shape - what they infect
7. Rod and sphere refers to the different ______ a virus can be...
Clone
Shapes
Envelope
Through sneezing or touching
8. How a pathogen gets from its reservoir to its host
Transmission
Plants dont have the plasmids or kinds of viruses needed for taking up the foreign pieces of DNA that bacterial cells have
Viroid
DNA and RNA
9. A type of disease caused a problem with someone's DNA that leads to a miss a malfunctioning protein
Genetic disease
Lysogenic
Gene splicing
Viroid
10. What is the procedure for taking a piece of DNA form one organism and putting it into another?
Only from parent to child
Prions
No
Isolation of the foreign DNA - Joining the DNA with the vehicle - Transfer to the recombinant DNA into a host
11. Type of disease caused by a pathogen (virus - bacteria - etc.) damaging cells in the body
Host
Vector
DNA made by connecting fragments of DNA from different sources
Communicable Disease
12. Are viruses living?
Lysogenic
Nucleic acid - shape - what they infect
No
Capsids
13. A living organism like an animal or insect that carries a pathogen from host to host
Genes left behind by the DNA after it is gone
Viroid
Nucleic acid - shape - what they infect
Vector
14. Layer of protein surrounding the nucleic acid in a virus
Viroid
Capsids
DNA sequencing
Temperate
15. What are the characteristics of living things?
No
Made up of cells - level of organization - able to reproduce - able to grow and develop - responds to stimuli - uses energy
Prion
Vector
16. What is the virus structure?
Genes left behind by the DNA after it is gone
Made of DNA or RNA - capsid - sometimes an envelope
Pathogen
Pandemic
17. DNA that is made from pieces of DNA from 2 different organisms
Made of DNA or RNA - capsid - sometimes an envelope
Recombinant DNA
Made up of cells - level of organization - able to reproduce - able to grow and develop - responds to stimuli - uses energy
Prions
18. Why is bacteria used to clone genes?
Lysogenic
When bacteria reproduce millions of bacterial cells are formed and each have a desired piece of foreign DNA that can be easily purified - studied and manipulated
Pandemic
The virus cant reproduce - make proteins ot store energy without it
19. How a pathogen gets from host to host
Lytic
Transmission
Transgenic organisms
Viral reproduction destroys the host cells and causes disease
20. Different types of nucleic acid
Epidemic
DNA and RNA
Isolation of the foreign DNA - Joining the DNA with the vehicle - Transfer to the recombinant DNA into a host
Capsid
21. Things that can cause disease
Communicable Disease
DNA and RNA
Pathogens
Transmission
22. How can a communicable disease be passed?
Capsid
Genes left behind by the DNA after it is gone
Through sneezing or touching
Vector
23. Possible extra outside coat on a virus
Envelope
Viral reproduction destroys the host cells and causes disease
It is inserted into an organism and the organism uses that foreign DNA as its own
Genes left behind by the DNA after it is gone
24. A non living pathogen made only of DNA
Envelope
Viroid
Plants dont have the plasmids or kinds of viruses needed for taking up the foreign pieces of DNA that bacterial cells have
When bacteria reproduce millions of bacterial cells are formed and each have a desired piece of foreign DNA that can be easily purified - studied and manipulated
25. Anything that causes disease
Viriulent
Recombinant DNA technology
Pathogen
Transgenic organisms
26. An organism that has recombinant DNA that functions
Vector
Made of DNA or RNA - capsid - sometimes an envelope
Prion
Transgenic organisms
27. Virus that pauses one it gets inside the cell and can lay dormant for days or years
The virus cant reproduce - make proteins ot store energy without it
Lysogenic
Prions
Envelope
28. A non living pathogen made of only protien
Prion
Shapes
Lytic
Virus
29. How can a genetic disease be passed...
Only from parent to child
Gene splicing
Temperate
Capsid
30. Another word for lysogenic
Rod and sphere
Temperate
Transgenic organisms
Recombinant DNA
31. Different shapes of a virus
Pandemic
Isolation of the foreign DNA - Joining the DNA with the vehicle - Transfer to the recombinant DNA into a host
Capsids
Rod and sphere
32. What is recombinant DNA?
DNA made by connecting fragments of DNA from different sources
Made up of cells - level of organization - able to reproduce - able to grow and develop - responds to stimuli - uses energy
Pandemic
Transmission
33. Outside protien coat of a virus
Recombinant DNA technology
Capsid
Reverse transcription
Shapes
34. What is another name for genetic engineering?
Prions
Vector
Made up of cells - level of organization - able to reproduce - able to grow and develop - responds to stimuli - uses energy
Recombinant DNA technology
35. Creating DNA from RNA
Reverse transcription
Genetic disease
When bacteria reproduce millions of bacterial cells are formed and each have a desired piece of foreign DNA that can be easily purified - studied and manipulated
Prions
36. An organism in which the pathogen lives and causes disease
Host
Pathogen
Nucleic acid - shape - what they infect
Clone
37. What is the use of a host for a virus?
Reverse transcription
Prion
The virus cant reproduce - make proteins ot store energy without it
DNA sequencing
38. A local outbreak of disease
Host
Viroid
Epidemic
Recombinant DNA
39. Normal body protein that has changed its 3d shape only - it has no DNA and can cause disease
Host
Lytic
Genes left behind by the DNA after it is gone
Prions
40. Something that carries a piece of DNA or pathogen but is not affected by them
Prion
Genetic disease
Vector
Reverse transcription
41. Figuring out the order of the letters in a strand of DNA
Virus
Recombinant DNA
The virus cant reproduce - make proteins ot store energy without it
DNA sequencing
42. He original host; where the virus lives until it moves to humans; usually only has mild symptoms
Reservoir
Lytic
No
Nucleic acid - shape - what they infect
43. A world wide break out of a disease
Communicable Disease
Pandemic
When bacteria reproduce millions of bacterial cells are formed and each have a desired piece of foreign DNA that can be easily purified - studied and manipulated
Transmission
44. How do viruses cause disease?
DNA and RNA
Viral reproduction destroys the host cells and causes disease
Transgenic organisms
Envelope
45. What is a DNA fingerprint?
Genes left behind by the DNA after it is gone
Viriulent
Viral reproduction destroys the host cells and causes disease
Pandemic
46. A non - living pathogen made of nucleic acid and protein
Nucleic acid - shape - what they infect
Host
Pandemic
Virus
47. Virus that infects its host and stars reproducing right away making the host sick quickly
Vector
Lytic
Capsids
Through sneezing or touching
48. Genetically identical copy
Clone
Communicable Disease
DNA sequencing
Envelope
49. Why is it harder to genetically engineer a plant?
Recombinant DNA
Plants dont have the plasmids or kinds of viruses needed for taking up the foreign pieces of DNA that bacterial cells have
Transmission
No