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Genetic Engineering And Virus

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1. A circular piece of single stranded RNA that can cause disease found in plants
Recombinant DNA technology
Viroid
Rod and sphere
Envelope

2. Normal body protein that has changed its 3d shape only - it has no DNA and can cause disease
DNA and RNA
Made of DNA or RNA - capsid - sometimes an envelope
Prions
Lytic

3. How do viruses cause disease?
Only from parent to child
Viral reproduction destroys the host cells and causes disease
Isolation of the foreign DNA - Joining the DNA with the vehicle - Transfer to the recombinant DNA into a host
Lysogenic

4. An organism in which the pathogen lives and causes disease
Shapes
Communicable 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

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

6. Creating DNA from RNA
Pandemic
Reverse transcription
Temperate
DNA and RNA

7. Why is bacteria used to clone genes?
DNA and RNA
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
Rod and sphere
Lysogenic

8. What is the virus structure?
Clone
Vector
Lysogenic
Made of DNA or RNA - capsid - sometimes an envelope

9. Genetically identical copy
Clone
Host
Temperate
Lytic

10. Different types of nucleic acid
Viriulent
Gene splicing
DNA and RNA
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

11. Something that carries a piece of DNA or pathogen but is not affected by them
Envelope
Pathogen
Viral reproduction destroys the host cells and causes disease
Vector

12. Anything that causes disease
Clone
DNA made by connecting fragments of DNA from different sources
Made up of cells - level of organization - able to reproduce - able to grow and develop - responds to stimuli - uses energy
Pathogen

13. Layer of protein surrounding the nucleic acid in a virus
DNA sequencing
Shapes
Capsids
Isolation of the foreign DNA - Joining the DNA with the vehicle - Transfer to the recombinant DNA into a host

14. Explain the application of application of genetic engineering
It is inserted into an organism and the organism uses that foreign DNA as its own
Recombinant DNA technology
Isolation of the foreign DNA - Joining the DNA with the vehicle - Transfer to the recombinant DNA into a host
DNA made by connecting fragments of DNA from different sources

15. A type of disease caused a problem with someone's DNA that leads to a miss a malfunctioning protein
Host
Genetic disease
Pandemic
Transgenic organisms

16. How a pathogen gets from host to host
DNA sequencing
Temperate
No
Transmission

17. Virus that infects its host and stars reproducing right away making the host sick quickly
Pandemic
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
Clone
Lytic

18. DNA that is made from pieces of DNA from 2 different organisms
Isolation of the foreign DNA - Joining the DNA with the vehicle - Transfer to the recombinant DNA into a host
Recombinant DNA technology
Virus
Recombinant DNA

19. Type of disease caused by a pathogen (virus - bacteria - etc.) damaging cells in the body
Communicable Disease
Only from parent to child
Capsid
DNA made by connecting fragments of DNA from different sources

20. He original host; where the virus lives until it moves to humans; usually only has mild symptoms
Viral reproduction destroys the host cells and causes disease
Host
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
Reservoir

21. A world wide break out of a disease
Pandemic
Made of DNA or RNA - capsid - sometimes an envelope
Transgenic organisms
No

22. Virus that pauses one it gets inside the cell and can lay dormant for days or years
Pandemic
Reservoir
Rod and sphere
Lysogenic

23. Another word for lytic
Clone
Viriulent
No
Only from parent to child

24. A worldwide outbreak of a disease
Pandemic
Epidemic
DNA and RNA
Pathogens

25. An organism that has recombinant DNA that functions
Transmission
Envelope
Transgenic organisms
It is inserted into an organism and the organism uses that foreign DNA as its own

26. What is another name for genetic engineering?
Clone
Recombinant DNA technology
Capsid
Nucleic acid - shape - what they infect

27. Rejoining of DNA
Genetic disease
Clone
Made of DNA or RNA - capsid - sometimes an envelope
Gene splicing

28. Possible extra outside coat on a virus
Envelope
Rod and sphere
DNA and RNA
Genes left behind by the DNA after it is gone

29. A non living pathogen made of only protien
Through sneezing or touching
Prion
Virus
Recombinant DNA technology

30. What is a DNA fingerprint?
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
Genes left behind by the DNA after it is gone
Pathogen
Gene splicing

31. Outside protien coat of a virus
Capsid
Vector
Communicable Disease
Viriulent

32. How can a genetic disease be passed...
Genes left behind by the DNA after it is gone
Recombinant DNA
Only from parent to child
Reservoir

33. A living organism like an animal or insect that carries a pathogen from host to host
Isolation of the foreign DNA - Joining the DNA with the vehicle - Transfer to the recombinant DNA into a host
Vector
Made up of cells - level of organization - able to reproduce - able to grow and develop - responds to stimuli - uses energy
Transmission

34. Figuring out the order of the letters in a strand of DNA
Capsid
Viroid
Recombinant DNA technology
DNA sequencing

35. Another word for lysogenic
Transmission
Lytic
Temperate
Viriulent

36. Are viruses living?
Capsid
No
Lysogenic
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

37. How can a communicable disease be passed?
The virus cant reproduce - make proteins ot store energy without it
Envelope
Through sneezing or touching
Shapes

38. A non living pathogen made only of DNA
Pathogens
DNA made by connecting fragments of DNA from different sources
Viroid
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

39. What is the procedure for taking a piece of DNA form one organism and putting it into another?
Rod and sphere
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
Isolation of the foreign DNA - Joining the DNA with the vehicle - Transfer to the recombinant DNA into a host

40. Rod and sphere refers to the different ______ a virus can be...
Shapes
Made of DNA or RNA - capsid - sometimes an envelope
Made up of cells - level of organization - able to reproduce - able to grow and develop - responds to stimuli - uses energy
Transmission

41. 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
Rod and sphere
Prion
Envelope

42. What is recombinant DNA?
Envelope
Nucleic acid - shape - what they infect
Transmission
DNA made by connecting fragments of DNA from different sources

43. 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
Reservoir
Rod and sphere
Genes left behind by the DNA after it is gone

44. A local outbreak of disease
Viral reproduction destroys the host cells and causes disease
Pandemic
Epidemic
Pandemic

45. What is the use of a host for a virus?
Recombinant DNA technology
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
Vector

46. Things that can cause disease
Pathogens
Viriulent
Capsids
Transmission

47. How are viruses classified?
Nucleic acid - shape - what they infect
Reservoir
Clone
Rod and sphere

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

49. How a pathogen gets from its reservoir to its host
Transgenic organisms
Transmission
Reservoir
Pathogen