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Genetic Engineering And Virus

Subject : engineering
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  • Answer 49 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Different shapes of a virus






2. Anything that causes disease






3. A type of disease caused a problem with someone's DNA that leads to a miss a malfunctioning protein






4. Rejoining of DNA






5. How can a communicable disease be passed?






6. What is the procedure for taking a piece of DNA form one organism and putting it into another?






7. Things that can cause disease






8. What is recombinant DNA?






9. A world wide break out of a disease






10. A worldwide outbreak of a disease






11. How do viruses cause disease?






12. Why is it harder to genetically engineer a plant?






13. He original host; where the virus lives until it moves to humans; usually only has mild symptoms






14. Virus that infects its host and stars reproducing right away making the host sick quickly






15. How are viruses classified?






16. Figuring out the order of the letters in a strand of DNA






17. How a pathogen gets from its reservoir to its host






18. What is a DNA fingerprint?






19. Creating DNA from RNA






20. A circular piece of single stranded RNA that can cause disease found in plants






21. How can a genetic disease be passed...






22. Rod and sphere refers to the different ______ a virus can be...






23. DNA that is made from pieces of DNA from 2 different organisms






24. Type of disease caused by a pathogen (virus - bacteria - etc.) damaging cells in the body






25. Explain the application of application of genetic engineering






26. Another word for lysogenic






27. What is the use of a host for a virus?






28. What is another name for genetic engineering?






29. What are the characteristics of living things?






30. A living organism like an animal or insect that carries a pathogen from host to host






31. Are viruses living?






32. Possible extra outside coat on a virus






33. Different types of nucleic acid






34. Something that carries a piece of DNA or pathogen but is not affected by them






35. Why is bacteria used to clone genes?






36. Another word for lytic






37. A non - living pathogen made of nucleic acid and protein






38. A non living pathogen made of only protien






39. Layer of protein surrounding the nucleic acid in a virus






40. An organism in which the pathogen lives and causes disease






41. Outside protien coat of a virus






42. What is the virus structure?






43. Normal body protein that has changed its 3d shape only - it has no DNA and can cause disease






44. Virus that pauses one it gets inside the cell and can lay dormant for days or years






45. A non living pathogen made only of DNA






46. Genetically identical copy






47. An organism that has recombinant DNA that functions






48. A local outbreak of disease






49. How a pathogen gets from host to host