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Genetic Engineering And Virus

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1. Something that carries a piece of DNA or pathogen but is not affected by them
Temperate
Prions
Vector
Through sneezing or touching

2. A type of disease caused a problem with someone's DNA that leads to a miss a malfunctioning protein
Genetic disease
Plants dont have the plasmids or kinds of viruses needed for taking up the foreign pieces of DNA that bacterial cells have
Communicable Disease
Host

3. Rod and sphere refers to the different ______ a virus can be...
Shapes
DNA sequencing
No
Capsids

4. Another word for lytic
Viriulent
Vector
Communicable Disease
Pandemic

5. 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
Through sneezing or touching
Pathogen
Host

6. 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
Host
Pathogen
Pandemic

7. Why is it harder to genetically engineer a plant?
Plants dont have the plasmids or kinds of viruses needed for taking up the foreign pieces of DNA that bacterial cells have
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
No

8. An organism in which the pathogen lives and causes disease
Host
Prion
Envelope
Viroid

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

10. How a pathogen gets from its reservoir to its host
Prion
Vector
Transmission
Pathogens

11. What is the virus structure?
It is inserted into an organism and the organism uses that foreign DNA as its own
Made of DNA or RNA - capsid - sometimes an envelope
Reservoir
Viroid

12. Different shapes of a virus
Gene splicing
Made of DNA or RNA - capsid - sometimes an envelope
Vector
Rod and sphere

13. Figuring out the order of the letters in a strand of DNA
Epidemic
DNA sequencing
Transmission
The virus cant reproduce - make proteins ot store energy without it

14. Outside protien coat of a virus
Epidemic
Capsid
Pathogens
Made up of cells - level of organization - able to reproduce - able to grow and develop - responds to stimuli - uses energy

15. A non living pathogen made of only protien
Lysogenic
Prion
Rod and sphere
It is inserted into an organism and the organism uses that foreign DNA as its own

16. A world wide break out of a disease
Virus
Viral reproduction destroys the host cells and causes disease
Prions
Pandemic

17. How can a genetic disease be passed...
Rod and sphere
Only from parent to child
Temperate
Recombinant DNA technology

18. Things that can cause disease
Virus
It is inserted into an organism and the organism uses that foreign DNA as its own
Pandemic
Pathogens

19. How a pathogen gets from host to host
Host
Reverse transcription
Capsid
Transmission

20. A circular piece of single stranded RNA that can cause disease found in plants
Recombinant DNA technology
Viroid
Pathogen
Pandemic

21. What is the use of a host for a virus?
Prion
Made of DNA or RNA - capsid - sometimes an envelope
The virus cant reproduce - make proteins ot store energy without it
Viral reproduction destroys the host cells and causes disease

22. Normal body protein that has changed its 3d shape only - it has no DNA and can cause disease
Epidemic
Isolation of the foreign DNA - Joining the DNA with the vehicle - Transfer to the recombinant DNA into a host
Prions
Made of DNA or RNA - capsid - sometimes an envelope

23. A local outbreak of disease
Vector
Viroid
Epidemic
Viral reproduction destroys the host cells and causes disease

24. Possible extra outside coat on a virus
Envelope
Vector
It is inserted into an organism and the organism uses that foreign DNA as its own
Pathogen

25. Layer of protein surrounding the nucleic acid in a virus
Host
Virus
Capsids
Through sneezing or touching

26. Another word for lysogenic
Temperate
Capsid
Lysogenic
Viriulent

27. Virus that infects its host and stars reproducing right away making the host sick quickly
DNA and RNA
Transgenic organisms
Lytic
Made up of cells - level of organization - able to reproduce - able to grow and develop - responds to stimuli - uses energy

28. How do viruses cause disease?
Communicable Disease
Rod and sphere
Shapes
Viral reproduction destroys the host cells and causes disease

29. An organism that has recombinant DNA that functions
Transgenic organisms
Pathogen
Pandemic
Nucleic acid - shape - what they infect

30. What is recombinant DNA?
No
Shapes
DNA made by connecting fragments of DNA from different sources
Viral reproduction destroys the host cells and causes disease

31. Creating DNA from RNA
Reverse transcription
Pandemic
Host
Only from parent to child

32. What is another name for genetic engineering?
Through sneezing or touching
No
Made of DNA or RNA - capsid - sometimes an envelope
Recombinant DNA technology

33. How are viruses classified?
Clone
Nucleic acid - shape - what they infect
Communicable Disease
Prion

34. A worldwide outbreak of a disease
Lytic
Pathogens
Pandemic
Gene splicing

35. A non living pathogen made only of DNA
Pathogen
Recombinant DNA
Viroid
No

36. What is a DNA fingerprint?
The virus cant reproduce - make proteins ot store energy without it
Genes left behind by the DNA after it is gone
It is inserted into an organism and the organism uses that foreign DNA as its own
Made up of cells - level of organization - able to reproduce - able to grow and develop - responds to stimuli - uses energy

37. A non - living pathogen made of nucleic acid and protein
Virus
Communicable Disease
Pandemic
Genetic disease

38. Virus that pauses one it gets inside the cell and can lay dormant for days or years
Lysogenic
Capsid
Epidemic
Gene splicing

39. Different types of nucleic acid
Temperate
Lytic
The virus cant reproduce - make proteins ot store energy without it
DNA and RNA

40. He original host; where the virus lives until it moves to humans; usually only has mild symptoms
Reservoir
Transmission
Pathogen
Prion

41. Rejoining of DNA
Prions
It is inserted into an organism and the organism uses that foreign DNA as its own
Gene splicing
Reverse transcription

42. A living organism like an animal or insect that carries a pathogen from host to host
Pandemic
Vector
Envelope
The virus cant reproduce - make proteins ot store energy without it

43. DNA that is made from pieces of DNA from 2 different organisms
Lysogenic
Plants dont have the plasmids or kinds of viruses needed for taking up the foreign pieces of DNA that bacterial cells have
Recombinant DNA
It is inserted into an organism and the organism uses that foreign DNA as its own

44. What are the characteristics of living things?
Viral reproduction destroys the host cells and causes disease
Made up of cells - level of organization - able to reproduce - able to grow and develop - responds to stimuli - uses energy
Through sneezing or touching
Pandemic

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

46. Why is bacteria used to clone genes?
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
Lysogenic
DNA sequencing
Virus

47. How can a communicable disease be passed?
Isolation of the foreign DNA - Joining the DNA with the vehicle - Transfer to the recombinant DNA into a host
Through sneezing or touching
Epidemic
Vector

48. Explain the application of application of genetic engineering
Viriulent
Reverse transcription
It is inserted into an organism and the organism uses that foreign DNA as its own
Prions

49. Are viruses living?
Prions
Clone
Vector
No