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Genetic Engineering And Virus

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Answer 49 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. A circular piece of single stranded RNA that can cause disease found in plants
Viroid
Plants dont have the plasmids or kinds of viruses needed for taking up the foreign pieces of DNA that bacterial cells have
Rod and sphere
Pandemic

2. Possible extra outside coat on a virus
DNA made by connecting fragments of DNA from different sources
Transmission
Envelope
Host

3. A world wide break out of a disease
Capsid
No
Pandemic
Reservoir

4. A worldwide outbreak of a disease
Pandemic
Pathogen
Transmission
Genetic disease

5. Things that can cause 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
Pathogens
Virus
Communicable Disease

6. Genetically identical copy
Made of DNA or RNA - capsid - sometimes an envelope
Clone
Gene splicing
DNA sequencing

7. How a pathogen gets from its reservoir to its host
Virus
Recombinant DNA
Temperate
Transmission

8. A type of disease caused a problem with someone's DNA that leads to a miss a malfunctioning protein
Prions
Isolation of the foreign DNA - Joining the DNA with the vehicle - Transfer to the recombinant DNA into a host
Genetic disease
Made of DNA or RNA - capsid - sometimes an envelope

9. What is the virus structure?
Lysogenic
Temperate
Through sneezing or touching
Made of DNA or RNA - capsid - sometimes an envelope

10. DNA that is made from pieces of DNA from 2 different organisms
Recombinant DNA
Pathogen
Only from parent to child
Made of DNA or RNA - capsid - sometimes an envelope

11. He original host; where the virus lives until it moves to humans; usually only has mild symptoms
Reservoir
Genetic disease
Clone
Pandemic

12. A non - living pathogen made of nucleic acid and protein
DNA sequencing
Transgenic organisms
Virus
Epidemic

13. A non living pathogen made of only protien
Temperate
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
Prion

14. 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
Recombinant DNA
Pathogens
Envelope

15. What is recombinant DNA?
DNA and RNA
Genetic disease
Made of DNA or RNA - capsid - sometimes an envelope
DNA made by connecting fragments of DNA from different sources

16. What are the characteristics of living things?
Pandemic
Transmission
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

17. What is another name for genetic engineering?
Made up of cells - level of organization - able to reproduce - able to grow and develop - responds to stimuli - uses energy
Recombinant DNA technology
Plants dont have the plasmids or kinds of viruses needed for taking up the foreign pieces of DNA that bacterial cells have
Epidemic

18. How are viruses classified?
Clone
Recombinant DNA
Nucleic acid - shape - what they infect
Viroid

19. 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
Only from parent to child
It is inserted into an organism and the organism uses that foreign DNA as its own

20. How can a genetic disease be passed...
Only from parent to child
Epidemic
Recombinant DNA technology
DNA made by connecting fragments of DNA from different sources

21. Figuring out the order of the letters in a strand of DNA
Shapes
Viroid
DNA sequencing
Prions

22. Normal body protein that has changed its 3d shape only - it has no DNA and can cause disease
Capsids
Virus
Prions
Recombinant DNA technology

23. A local outbreak of disease
DNA and RNA
Pandemic
Epidemic
Only from parent to child

24. Explain the application of application of genetic engineering
Pathogen
Vector
Clone
It is inserted into an organism and the organism uses that foreign DNA as its own

25. Another word for lysogenic
Viriulent
Temperate
Lytic
Envelope

26. Rod and sphere refers to the different ______ a virus can be...
Shapes
Reservoir
Isolation of the foreign DNA - Joining the DNA with the vehicle - Transfer to the recombinant DNA into a host
It is inserted into an organism and the organism uses that foreign DNA as its own

27. What is the procedure for taking a piece of DNA form one organism and putting it into another?
DNA sequencing
Isolation of the foreign DNA - Joining the DNA with the vehicle - Transfer to the recombinant DNA into a host
It is inserted into an organism and the organism uses that foreign DNA as its own
Reservoir

28. How a pathogen gets from host to host
DNA sequencing
Nucleic acid - shape - what they infect
Genetic disease
Transmission

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

30. Something that carries a piece of DNA or pathogen but is not affected by them
Vector
Temperate
Envelope
DNA made by connecting fragments of DNA from different sources

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

32. Are viruses living?
Recombinant DNA technology
No
Pandemic
Genes left behind by the DNA after it is gone

33. An organism in which the pathogen lives and causes disease
Rod and sphere
Viroid
Gene splicing
Host

34. How can a communicable disease be passed?
DNA sequencing
No
Viral reproduction destroys the host cells and causes disease
Through sneezing or touching

35. Different types of nucleic acid
No
Vector
DNA and RNA
Transmission

36. Why is bacteria used to clone genes?
Nucleic acid - shape - what they infect
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
Plants dont have the plasmids or kinds of viruses needed for taking up the foreign pieces of DNA that bacterial cells have
Pathogens

37. What is a DNA fingerprint?
Communicable Disease
Recombinant DNA technology
Clone
Genes left behind by the DNA after it is gone

38. Another word for lytic
Genetic disease
Viriulent
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

39. A living organism like an animal or insect that carries a pathogen from host to host
Transgenic organisms
Vector
Host
Transmission

40. Different shapes of a virus
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
Viriulent
Rod and sphere
Lysogenic

41. How do viruses cause disease?
Nucleic acid - shape - what they infect
Vector
Transgenic organisms
Viral reproduction destroys the host cells and causes disease

42. A non living pathogen made only of DNA
Viroid
Shapes
Genes left behind by the DNA after it is gone
Communicable Disease

43. What is the use of a host for a virus?
Through sneezing or touching
The virus cant reproduce - make proteins ot store energy without it
Recombinant DNA
Recombinant DNA technology

44. Outside protien coat of a virus
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
Viral reproduction destroys the host cells and causes disease
Reverse transcription

45. An organism that has recombinant DNA that functions
Only from parent to child
Prions
Gene splicing
Transgenic organisms

46. Anything that causes disease
Pathogen
Reverse transcription
Pandemic
Made of DNA or RNA - capsid - sometimes an envelope

47. Rejoining of DNA
Gene splicing
Transmission
Lysogenic
Shapes

48. Creating DNA from RNA
Reverse transcription
Transmission
Recombinant DNA
Prions

49. Virus that pauses one it gets inside the cell and can lay dormant for days or years
Gene splicing
Recombinant DNA
Envelope
Lysogenic