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