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Genetic Engineering And Virus

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1. Anything that causes disease
Pathogen
Prion
Gene splicing
Recombinant DNA technology

2. What is the virus structure?
Host
Recombinant DNA
Made of DNA or RNA - capsid - sometimes an envelope
Pandemic

3. How a pathogen gets from host to host
Nucleic acid - shape - what they infect
Pathogen
Transmission
Made up of cells - level of organization - able to reproduce - able to grow and develop - responds to stimuli - uses energy

4. A circular piece of single stranded RNA that can cause disease found in plants
Viral reproduction destroys the host cells and 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
Viroid
It is inserted into an organism and the organism uses that foreign DNA as its own

5. How do viruses cause disease?
Reservoir
Through sneezing or touching
Nucleic acid - shape - what they infect
Viral reproduction destroys the host cells and causes disease

6. Things that can cause disease
Lysogenic
No
Pathogens
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

7. Different types of nucleic acid
DNA and RNA
DNA sequencing
The virus cant reproduce - make proteins ot store energy without it
Virus

8. A type of disease caused a problem with someone's DNA that leads to a miss a malfunctioning protein
Epidemic
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
No
Genetic disease

9. Something that carries a piece of DNA or pathogen but is not affected by them
DNA made by connecting fragments of DNA from different sources
Pathogens
Communicable Disease
Vector

10. Why is bacteria used to clone genes?
Nucleic acid - shape - what they infect
Capsid
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
Capsids

11. A worldwide outbreak of a disease
Viroid
Genes left behind by the DNA after it is gone
Pandemic
Pathogens

12. How a pathogen gets from its reservoir to its host
Transmission
Transgenic organisms
It is inserted into an organism and the organism uses that foreign DNA as its own
Isolation of the foreign DNA - Joining the DNA with the vehicle - Transfer to the recombinant DNA into a host

13. A non living pathogen made of only protien
Isolation of the foreign DNA - Joining the DNA with the vehicle - Transfer to the recombinant DNA into a host
Prion
Temperate
Made of DNA or RNA - capsid - sometimes an envelope

14. Different shapes of a virus
Rod and sphere
Viroid
Pathogen
Recombinant DNA technology

15. An organism that has recombinant DNA that functions
Transgenic organisms
Lytic
Transmission
Only from parent to child

16. Virus that pauses one it gets inside the cell and can lay dormant for days or years
Shapes
Lysogenic
Transgenic organisms
Epidemic

17. What are the characteristics of living things?
Vector
Made up of cells - level of organization - able to reproduce - able to grow and develop - responds to stimuli - uses energy
Epidemic
Reverse transcription

18. Layer of protein surrounding the nucleic acid in a virus
Plants dont have the plasmids or kinds of viruses needed for taking up the foreign pieces of DNA that bacterial cells have
Capsids
Rod and sphere
Reservoir

19. How can a communicable disease be passed?
Transgenic organisms
Lytic
The virus cant reproduce - make proteins ot store energy without it
Through sneezing or touching

20. Outside protien coat of a virus
Only from parent to child
Pandemic
Capsid
DNA sequencing

21. Rod and sphere refers to the different ______ a virus can be...
It is inserted into an organism and the organism uses that foreign DNA as its own
Shapes
DNA and RNA
Reservoir

22. A local outbreak of disease
Communicable Disease
Rod and sphere
Only from parent to child
Epidemic

23. A non - living pathogen made of nucleic acid and protein
Temperate
Only from parent to child
Virus
Pandemic

24. Why is it harder to genetically engineer a plant?
Pathogens
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
Reverse transcription

25. DNA that is made from pieces of DNA from 2 different organisms
Reverse transcription
Pandemic
Capsid
Recombinant DNA

26. Virus that infects its host and stars reproducing right away making the host sick quickly
Transgenic organisms
Lytic
Reservoir
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

27. He original host; where the virus lives until it moves to humans; usually only has mild symptoms
Recombinant DNA technology
Reservoir
Prion
Transgenic organisms

28. What is recombinant DNA?
Plants dont have the plasmids or kinds of viruses needed for taking up the foreign pieces of DNA that bacterial cells have
DNA made by connecting fragments of DNA from different sources
Pandemic
Shapes

29. Normal body protein that has changed its 3d shape only - it has no DNA and can cause disease
Gene splicing
Lysogenic
Prions
Vector

30. Possible extra outside coat on a virus
DNA made by connecting fragments of DNA from different sources
Epidemic
Nucleic acid - shape - what they infect
Envelope

31. Figuring out the order of the letters in a strand of DNA
Made up of cells - level of organization - able to reproduce - able to grow and develop - responds to stimuli - uses energy
DNA sequencing
Communicable Disease
Made of DNA or RNA - capsid - sometimes an envelope

32. 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
Viriulent
Pandemic
Viral reproduction destroys the host cells and causes disease

33. A world wide break out of a disease
Envelope
It is inserted into an organism and the organism uses that foreign DNA as its own
Genetic disease
Pandemic

34. How can a genetic disease be passed...
Host
Pandemic
Only from parent to child
Pathogen

35. Genetically identical copy
Reservoir
Clone
Genes left behind by the DNA after it is gone
Virus

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

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

38. Rejoining of DNA
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
Genetic disease
Communicable Disease
Gene splicing

39. How are viruses classified?
Transmission
No
Nucleic acid - shape - what they infect
Host

40. Explain the application of application of genetic engineering
It is inserted into an organism and the organism uses that foreign DNA as its own
Vector
Viral reproduction destroys the host cells and causes disease
Prion

41. Another word for lysogenic
Vector
DNA made by connecting fragments of DNA from different sources
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
Temperate

42. Type of disease caused by a pathogen (virus - bacteria - etc.) damaging cells in the body
Reverse transcription
Pandemic
Communicable Disease
Viral reproduction destroys the host cells and causes disease

43. A non living pathogen made only of DNA
Vector
Rod and sphere
Viroid
Prions

44. What is another name for genetic engineering?
Temperate
Recombinant DNA technology
Capsids
Virus

45. An organism in which the pathogen lives and causes disease
Only from parent to child
Through sneezing or touching
Viroid
Host

46. Another word for lytic
Pathogens
Communicable Disease
Through sneezing or touching
Viriulent

47. Creating DNA from RNA
Reverse transcription
Temperate
Pathogens
Genetic disease

48. A living organism like an animal or insect that carries a pathogen from host to host
Capsids
Made of DNA or RNA - capsid - sometimes an envelope
Vector
Pandemic

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