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Genetic Engineering And Virus

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1. An organism in which the pathogen lives and causes disease
Transmission
Envelope
Host
Capsids

2. Genetically identical copy
Clone
It is inserted into an organism and the organism uses that foreign DNA as its own
Reservoir
Recombinant DNA technology

3. How can a genetic disease be passed...
Only from parent to child
It is inserted into an organism and the organism uses that foreign DNA as its own
Host
Envelope

4. What is another name for genetic engineering?
Pandemic
Virus
Only from parent to child
Recombinant DNA technology

5. How a pathogen gets from host to host
Lysogenic
Transmission
Viriulent
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

6. What is the virus structure?
Made of DNA or RNA - capsid - sometimes an envelope
Virus
DNA sequencing
Viroid

7. Another word for lytic
Transgenic organisms
Pandemic
Communicable Disease
Viriulent

8. What is recombinant DNA?
DNA made by connecting fragments of DNA from different sources
Only from parent to child
Pandemic
Isolation of the foreign DNA - Joining the DNA with the vehicle - Transfer to the recombinant DNA into a host

9. He original host; where the virus lives until it moves to humans; usually only has mild symptoms
Transmission
Through sneezing or touching
Pandemic
Reservoir

10. Type of disease caused by a pathogen (virus - bacteria - etc.) damaging cells in the body
Shapes
Communicable Disease
Pandemic
It is inserted into an organism and the organism uses that foreign DNA as its own

11. Possible extra outside coat on a virus
Envelope
Reverse transcription
Vector
Isolation of the foreign DNA - Joining the DNA with the vehicle - Transfer to the recombinant DNA into a host

12. Explain the application of application of genetic engineering
Recombinant DNA technology
Reservoir
Only from parent to child
It is inserted into an organism and the organism uses that foreign DNA as its own

13. A world wide break out of a disease
Temperate
Pandemic
Lysogenic
Gene splicing

14. Normal body protein that has changed its 3d shape only - it has no DNA and can cause disease
Pathogen
Capsids
Plants dont have the plasmids or kinds of viruses needed for taking up the foreign pieces of DNA that bacterial cells have
Prions

15. A non living pathogen made only of DNA
Lysogenic
Prions
Only from parent to child
Viroid

16. Things that can cause disease
Capsid
DNA sequencing
Isolation of the foreign DNA - Joining the DNA with the vehicle - Transfer to the recombinant DNA into a host
Pathogens

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

18. A circular piece of single stranded RNA that can cause disease found in plants
Virus
Viroid
The virus cant reproduce - make proteins ot store energy without it
Pandemic

19. A type of disease caused a problem with someone's DNA that leads to a miss a malfunctioning protein
Virus
Genetic disease
Recombinant DNA
Rod and sphere

20. What are the characteristics of living things?
Isolation of the foreign DNA - Joining the DNA with the vehicle - Transfer to the recombinant DNA into a host
Epidemic
Made up of cells - level of organization - able to reproduce - able to grow and develop - responds to stimuli - uses energy
Reverse transcription

21. Virus that pauses one it gets inside the cell and can lay dormant for days or years
Transmission
Lysogenic
Plants dont have the plasmids or kinds of viruses needed for taking up the foreign pieces of DNA that bacterial cells have
Only from parent to child

22. Virus that infects its host and stars reproducing right away making the host sick quickly
Temperate
DNA sequencing
Lytic
Genes left behind by the DNA after it is gone

23. How are viruses classified?
Nucleic acid - shape - what they infect
Made of DNA or RNA - capsid - sometimes an envelope
DNA and RNA
Recombinant DNA

24. A local outbreak of disease
Only from parent to child
Epidemic
Rod and sphere
Nucleic acid - shape - what they infect

25. Why is bacteria used to clone genes?
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
Pathogens
DNA made by connecting fragments of DNA from different sources

26. Are viruses living?
Plants dont have the plasmids or kinds of viruses needed for taking up the foreign pieces of DNA that bacterial cells have
Epidemic
No
Pandemic

27. How a pathogen gets from its reservoir to its host
Viral reproduction destroys the host cells and causes disease
DNA made by connecting fragments of DNA from different sources
Transmission
Envelope

28. A non living pathogen made of only protien
Gene splicing
Prion
Viral reproduction destroys the host cells and causes disease
Recombinant DNA technology

29. Outside protien coat of a virus
Viriulent
DNA and RNA
Isolation of the foreign DNA - Joining the DNA with the vehicle - Transfer to the recombinant DNA into a host
Capsid

30. Anything that causes 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
Pandemic
Pathogen
Virus

31. Rejoining of DNA
DNA and RNA
Gene splicing
Only from parent to child
Lytic

32. Different types of nucleic acid
DNA and RNA
Transgenic organisms
Nucleic acid - shape - what they infect
Isolation of the foreign DNA - Joining the DNA with the vehicle - Transfer to the recombinant DNA into a host

33. Something that carries a piece of DNA or pathogen but is not affected by them
Plants dont have the plasmids or kinds of viruses needed for taking up the foreign pieces of DNA that bacterial cells have
Pandemic
Recombinant DNA
Vector

34. Creating DNA from RNA
Recombinant DNA technology
Reverse transcription
Gene splicing
Viroid

35. Different shapes of a virus
Only from parent to child
Virus
Rod and sphere
Transgenic organisms

36. What is the procedure for taking a piece of DNA form one organism and putting it into another?
Isolation of the foreign DNA - Joining the DNA with the vehicle - Transfer to the recombinant DNA into a host
Reservoir
Nucleic acid - shape - what they infect
Pandemic

37. How do viruses cause disease?
Shapes
Genes left behind by the DNA after it is gone
Viral reproduction destroys the host cells and causes disease
Clone

38. Figuring out the order of the letters in a strand of DNA
DNA sequencing
Genetic disease
Capsid
Prions

39. Another word for lysogenic
Virus
Vector
Plants dont have the plasmids or kinds of viruses needed for taking up the foreign pieces of DNA that bacterial cells have
Temperate

40. Why is it harder to genetically engineer a plant?
Clone
Transmission
Plants dont have the plasmids or kinds of viruses needed for taking up the foreign pieces of DNA that bacterial cells have
Lytic

41. Layer of protein surrounding the nucleic acid in a virus
Nucleic acid - shape - what they infect
Capsids
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

42. DNA that is made from pieces of DNA from 2 different organisms
Shapes
Viroid
Recombinant DNA
Envelope

43. A living organism like an animal or insect that carries a pathogen from host to host
Rod and sphere
Viroid
Vector
Recombinant DNA

44. How can a communicable disease be passed?
Plants dont have the plasmids or kinds of viruses needed for taking up the foreign pieces of DNA that bacterial cells have
Viriulent
Through sneezing or touching
Capsid

45. A worldwide outbreak of a disease
Made of DNA or RNA - capsid - sometimes an envelope
Epidemic
Prions
Pandemic

46. Rod and sphere refers to the different ______ a virus can be...
Pandemic
Lysogenic
Shapes
Recombinant DNA

47. What is a DNA fingerprint?
Transmission
Genes left behind by the DNA after it is gone
DNA and RNA
Only from parent to child

48. An organism that has recombinant DNA that functions
Shapes
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
Transgenic organisms
Epidemic

49. A non - living pathogen made of nucleic acid and protein
Prions
Virus
DNA and RNA
Recombinant DNA technology