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Genetic Engineering And Virus
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Instructions:
Answer 49 questions in 15 minutes.
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Match each statement with the correct term.
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This is a study tool. The 3 wrong answers for each question are randomly chosen from answers to other questions. So, you might find at times the answers obvious, but you will see it re-enforces your understanding as you take the test each time.
1. What is the use of a host for a virus?
Genetic disease
Only from parent to child
The virus cant reproduce - make proteins ot store energy without it
Clone
2. An organism in which the pathogen lives and causes disease
Communicable Disease
Only from parent to child
Host
DNA made by connecting fragments of DNA from different sources
3. How do viruses cause disease?
Plants dont have the plasmids or kinds of viruses needed for taking up the foreign pieces of DNA that bacterial cells have
Vector
Host
Viral reproduction destroys the host cells and causes disease
4. What are the characteristics of living things?
Only from parent to child
Genes left behind by the DNA after it is gone
Envelope
Made up of cells - level of organization - able to reproduce - able to grow and develop - responds to stimuli - uses energy
5. Anything that causes disease
Pathogen
Genetic disease
Lysogenic
Prion
6. Are viruses living?
Viral reproduction destroys the host cells and causes disease
Plants dont have the plasmids or kinds of viruses needed for taking up the foreign pieces of DNA that bacterial cells have
No
Pathogens
7. He original host; where the virus lives until it moves to humans; usually only has mild symptoms
Lytic
Host
Viriulent
Reservoir
8. Rejoining of DNA
Pandemic
Temperate
Viriulent
Gene splicing
9. How are viruses classified?
Reverse transcription
Prion
Vector
Nucleic acid - shape - what they infect
10. Type of disease caused by a pathogen (virus - bacteria - etc.) damaging cells in the body
Plants dont have the plasmids or kinds of viruses needed for taking up the foreign pieces of DNA that bacterial cells have
Communicable Disease
Virus
Pathogens
11. Things that can cause disease
Pathogens
Temperate
Capsids
Made up of cells - level of organization - able to reproduce - able to grow and develop - responds to stimuli - uses energy
12. What is the procedure for taking a piece of DNA form one organism and putting it into another?
Through sneezing or touching
Temperate
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
13. What is another name for genetic engineering?
Clone
Capsids
Recombinant DNA technology
Nucleic acid - shape - what they infect
14. Virus that infects its host and stars reproducing right away making the host sick quickly
Lytic
Viroid
Plants dont have the plasmids or kinds of viruses needed for taking up the foreign pieces of DNA that bacterial cells have
Capsid
15. A type of disease caused a problem with someone's DNA that leads to a miss a malfunctioning protein
Genetic disease
Epidemic
Clone
The virus cant reproduce - make proteins ot store energy without it
16. Virus that pauses one it gets inside the cell and can lay dormant for days or years
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
Rod and sphere
It is inserted into an organism and the organism uses that foreign DNA as its own
17. Rod and sphere refers to the different ______ a virus can be...
Isolation of the foreign DNA - Joining the DNA with the vehicle - Transfer to the recombinant DNA into a host
Vector
Shapes
Made of DNA or RNA - capsid - sometimes an envelope
18. A world wide break out of a disease
Capsid
Viral reproduction destroys the host cells and causes disease
Pandemic
Recombinant DNA
19. How a pathogen gets from host to host
Pandemic
Through sneezing or touching
Transmission
Prion
20. A worldwide outbreak of a disease
Prions
Pandemic
Communicable Disease
Plants dont have the plasmids or kinds of viruses needed for taking up the foreign pieces of DNA that bacterial cells have
21. Another word for lysogenic
Pathogen
Lysogenic
Genetic disease
Temperate
22. Something that carries a piece of DNA or pathogen but is not affected by them
No
Recombinant DNA
Vector
Made of DNA or RNA - capsid - sometimes an envelope
23. Figuring out the order of the letters in a strand of DNA
DNA sequencing
Genes left behind by the DNA after it is gone
Reservoir
Isolation of the foreign DNA - Joining the DNA with the vehicle - Transfer to the recombinant DNA into a host
24. Layer of protein surrounding the nucleic acid in a virus
It is inserted into an organism and the organism uses that foreign DNA as its own
Capsids
Pandemic
DNA sequencing
25. What is the virus structure?
Made of DNA or RNA - capsid - sometimes an envelope
DNA sequencing
The virus cant reproduce - make proteins ot store energy without it
Reservoir
26. What is a DNA fingerprint?
Shapes
Nucleic acid - shape - what they infect
Vector
Genes left behind by the DNA after it is gone
27. A circular piece of single stranded RNA that can cause disease found in plants
Reservoir
No
Viroid
Only from parent to child
28. Different types of nucleic acid
Pathogens
Lysogenic
Through sneezing or touching
DNA and RNA
29. Possible extra outside coat on a virus
Pandemic
Envelope
Capsids
Reservoir
30. An organism that has recombinant DNA that functions
Transmission
Genes left behind by the DNA after it is gone
Reverse transcription
Transgenic organisms
31. A living organism like an animal or insect that carries a pathogen from host to host
Pathogen
Isolation of the foreign DNA - Joining the DNA with the vehicle - Transfer to the recombinant DNA into a host
Vector
Recombinant DNA
32. Creating DNA from RNA
It is inserted into an organism and the organism uses that foreign DNA as its own
Transgenic organisms
Reverse transcription
The virus cant reproduce - make proteins ot store energy without it
33. A non living pathogen made of only protien
Prion
DNA made by connecting fragments of DNA from different sources
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
34. Why is bacteria used to clone genes?
Made up of cells - level of organization - able to reproduce - able to grow and develop - responds to stimuli - uses energy
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
Recombinant DNA
DNA sequencing
35. Why is it harder to genetically engineer a plant?
Capsids
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
Pathogens
36. DNA that is made from pieces of DNA from 2 different organisms
Host
Recombinant DNA
Communicable Disease
No
37. A non - living pathogen made of nucleic acid and protein
Epidemic
Made of DNA or RNA - capsid - sometimes an envelope
Envelope
Virus
38. Different shapes of a virus
Prion
Through sneezing or touching
Rod and sphere
Lysogenic
39. Normal body protein that has changed its 3d shape only - it has no DNA and can cause disease
Prions
Gene splicing
Lytic
Made up of cells - level of organization - able to reproduce - able to grow and develop - responds to stimuli - uses energy
40. A local outbreak of disease
Epidemic
Shapes
Recombinant DNA
Nucleic acid - shape - what they infect
41. Outside protien coat of a virus
Epidemic
Recombinant DNA technology
Vector
Capsid
42. How a pathogen gets from its reservoir to its host
Transgenic organisms
Transmission
Vector
Viroid
43. A non living pathogen made only of DNA
Epidemic
No
Viroid
DNA sequencing
44. Explain the application of application of genetic engineering
Transgenic organisms
Gene splicing
Viroid
It is inserted into an organism and the organism uses that foreign DNA as its own
45. How can a communicable disease be passed?
Genetic disease
Prion
Transmission
Through sneezing or touching
46. What is recombinant DNA?
Gene splicing
Through sneezing or touching
Pandemic
DNA made by connecting fragments of DNA from different sources
47. How can a genetic disease be passed...
Only from parent to child
DNA and RNA
Shapes
Vector
48. Genetically identical copy
Vector
Genetic disease
Made up of cells - level of organization - able to reproduce - able to grow and develop - responds to stimuli - uses energy
Clone
49. Another word for lytic
Vector
Capsids
Viriulent
Viroid