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