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Genetic Engineering And Virus

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1. Things that can cause disease
Genetic disease
Pathogens
Isolation of the foreign DNA - Joining the DNA with the vehicle - Transfer to the recombinant DNA into a host
The virus cant reproduce - make proteins ot store energy without it

2. Why is bacteria used to clone genes?
Recombinant DNA technology
Made of DNA or RNA - capsid - sometimes an envelope
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
Viroid

3. An organism in which the pathogen lives and causes disease
Host
Only from parent to child
Viroid
Genes left behind by the DNA after it is gone

4. What are the characteristics of living things?
Only from parent to child
Prion
Made up of cells - level of organization - able to reproduce - able to grow and develop - responds to stimuli - uses energy
Recombinant DNA technology

5. How a pathogen gets from its reservoir to its host
Recombinant DNA technology
Viral reproduction destroys the host cells and causes disease
Transmission
Pathogens

6. What is another name for genetic engineering?
DNA made by connecting fragments of DNA from different sources
Vector
Recombinant DNA technology
Viroid

7. Different types of nucleic acid
DNA and RNA
DNA made by connecting fragments of DNA from different sources
It is inserted into an organism and the organism uses that foreign DNA as its own
Only from parent to child

8. What is a DNA fingerprint?
Genetic disease
Plants dont have the plasmids or kinds of viruses needed for taking up the foreign pieces of DNA that bacterial cells have
Genes left behind by the DNA after it is gone
Epidemic

9. Creating DNA from RNA
Made of DNA or RNA - capsid - sometimes an envelope
Reverse transcription
DNA made by connecting fragments of DNA from different sources
Clone

10. Different shapes of a virus
DNA and RNA
Rod and sphere
Shapes
Prions

11. Normal body protein that has changed its 3d shape only - it has no DNA and can cause disease
Prions
Recombinant DNA
Envelope
Temperate

12. Explain the application of application of genetic engineering
It is inserted into an organism and the organism uses that foreign DNA as its own
DNA made by connecting fragments of DNA from different sources
Gene splicing
DNA and RNA

13. A local outbreak of disease
DNA sequencing
Made up of cells - level of organization - able to reproduce - able to grow and develop - responds to stimuli - uses energy
Epidemic
Communicable Disease

14. DNA that is made from pieces of DNA from 2 different organisms
Recombinant DNA
Communicable Disease
DNA and RNA
Pathogens

15. Rejoining of DNA
No
DNA sequencing
Host
Gene splicing

16. How can a communicable disease be passed?
Through sneezing or touching
Pathogens
Capsid
Pathogen

17. What is the procedure for taking a piece of DNA form one organism and putting it into another?
Viroid
Lysogenic
Through sneezing or touching
Isolation of the foreign DNA - Joining the DNA with the vehicle - Transfer to the recombinant DNA into a host

18. Outside protien coat of a virus
Shapes
No
Isolation of the foreign DNA - Joining the DNA with the vehicle - Transfer to the recombinant DNA into a host
Capsid

19. Genetically identical copy
DNA and RNA
Viral reproduction destroys the host cells and causes disease
Clone
Through sneezing or touching

20. A non living pathogen made only of DNA
No
Reverse transcription
Viroid
Lysogenic

21. Virus that infects its host and stars reproducing right away making the host sick quickly
Lytic
Envelope
Isolation of the foreign DNA - Joining the DNA with the vehicle - Transfer to the recombinant DNA into a host
Recombinant DNA technology

22. Anything that causes disease
Pathogen
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
Recombinant DNA technology

23. A type of disease caused a problem with someone's DNA that leads to a miss a malfunctioning protein
Genes left behind by the DNA after it is gone
Envelope
Pathogens
Genetic disease

24. He original host; where the virus lives until it moves to humans; usually only has mild symptoms
DNA sequencing
Genes left behind by the DNA after it is gone
Reservoir
Made of DNA or RNA - capsid - sometimes an envelope

25. What is the use of a host for a virus?
Clone
Through sneezing or touching
The virus cant reproduce - make proteins ot store energy without it
Vector

26. Another word for lysogenic
Temperate
Vector
Reservoir
Pathogen

27. Figuring out the order of the letters in a strand of DNA
Capsids
Pathogens
Plants dont have the plasmids or kinds of viruses needed for taking up the foreign pieces of DNA that bacterial cells have
DNA sequencing

28. A living organism like an animal or insect that carries a pathogen from host to host
DNA sequencing
Clone
Vector
Epidemic

29. Virus that pauses one it gets inside the cell and can lay dormant for days or years
Lysogenic
Virus
Capsids
It is inserted into an organism and the organism uses that foreign DNA as its own

30. Layer of protein surrounding the nucleic acid in a virus
Epidemic
Pathogen
It is inserted into an organism and the organism uses that foreign DNA as its own
Capsids

31. A non - living pathogen made of nucleic acid and protein
The virus cant reproduce - make proteins ot store energy without it
Virus
Genetic disease
Reverse transcription

32. Rod and sphere refers to the different ______ a virus can be...
Plants dont have the plasmids or kinds of viruses needed for taking up the foreign pieces of DNA that bacterial cells have
Shapes
Pathogen
Lysogenic

33. What is recombinant DNA?
Vector
No
Lysogenic
DNA made by connecting fragments of DNA from different sources

34. An organism that has recombinant DNA that functions
Transgenic organisms
Viroid
Only from parent to child
It is inserted into an organism and the organism uses that foreign DNA as its own

35. Why is it harder to genetically engineer a plant?
Made of DNA or RNA - capsid - sometimes an envelope
Recombinant DNA technology
Isolation of the foreign DNA - Joining the DNA with the vehicle - Transfer to the recombinant DNA into a host
Plants dont have the plasmids or kinds of viruses needed for taking up the foreign pieces of DNA that bacterial cells have

36. Type of disease caused by a pathogen (virus - bacteria - etc.) damaging cells in the body
Vector
Communicable Disease
Host
Shapes

37. How do viruses cause disease?
Viral reproduction destroys the host cells and causes disease
The virus cant reproduce - make proteins ot store energy without it
Viriulent
Gene splicing

38. Another word for lytic
Only from parent to child
Temperate
Viriulent
Recombinant DNA

39. How are viruses classified?
Capsids
Shapes
Isolation of the foreign DNA - Joining the DNA with the vehicle - Transfer to the recombinant DNA into a host
Nucleic acid - shape - what they infect

40. How can a genetic disease be passed...
Pathogens
Temperate
Only from parent to child
Host

41. How a pathogen gets from host to host
Pathogens
Through sneezing or touching
Communicable Disease
Transmission

42. A worldwide outbreak of a disease
Through sneezing or touching
Pandemic
Viral reproduction destroys the host cells and causes disease
Gene splicing

43. Are viruses living?
Reservoir
Viriulent
No
Nucleic acid - shape - what they infect

44. What is the virus structure?
Pathogen
Viroid
Envelope
Made of DNA or RNA - capsid - sometimes an envelope

45. A circular piece of single stranded RNA that can cause disease found in plants
Lytic
Viroid
Vector
Viriulent

46. A non living pathogen made of only protien
Pathogen
Recombinant DNA technology
Reservoir
Prion

47. Possible extra outside coat on a virus
DNA made by connecting fragments of DNA from different sources
Envelope
Capsids
Prions

48. A world wide break out of a disease
Host
Pandemic
Made of DNA or RNA - capsid - sometimes an envelope
Clone

49. Something that carries a piece of DNA or pathogen but is not affected by them
Vector
Rod and sphere
Viriulent
No