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Genetic Engineering And Virus

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1. Things that can cause disease
Reservoir
Reverse transcription
Viral reproduction destroys the host cells and causes disease
Pathogens

2. 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
Rod and sphere
Pathogens
Viroid

3. Normal body protein that has changed its 3d shape only - it has no DNA and can cause disease
It is inserted into an organism and the organism uses that foreign DNA as its own
Through sneezing or touching
Plants dont have the plasmids or kinds of viruses needed for taking up the foreign pieces of DNA that bacterial cells have
Prions

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

5. A worldwide outbreak of a disease
Vector
Epidemic
Pandemic
Reverse transcription

6. How can a communicable disease be passed?
Isolation of the foreign DNA - Joining the DNA with the vehicle - Transfer to the recombinant DNA into a host
Capsid
Through sneezing or touching
Temperate

7. Virus that pauses one it gets inside the cell and can lay dormant for days or years
The virus cant reproduce - make proteins ot store energy without it
Lysogenic
Vector
Envelope

8. Different types of nucleic acid
Envelope
Viroid
Viroid
DNA and RNA

9. An organism that has recombinant DNA that functions
Transgenic organisms
Isolation of the foreign DNA - Joining the DNA with the vehicle - Transfer to the recombinant DNA into a host
Epidemic
Capsid

10. A non living pathogen made of only protien
Shapes
Prion
Host
Communicable Disease

11. What is another name for genetic engineering?
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
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
It is inserted into an organism and the organism uses that foreign DNA as its own

12. What is a DNA fingerprint?
Made up of cells - level of organization - able to reproduce - able to grow and develop - responds to stimuli - uses energy
Genes left behind by the DNA after it is gone
Genetic disease
Lysogenic

13. How a pathogen gets from its reservoir to its host
Transmission
Pathogens
DNA made by connecting fragments of DNA from different sources
Communicable Disease

14. Figuring out the order of the letters in a strand of DNA
Epidemic
DNA and RNA
DNA sequencing
Nucleic acid - shape - what they infect

15. Why is it harder to genetically engineer a plant?
Virus
Reservoir
Plants dont have the plasmids or kinds of viruses needed for taking up the foreign pieces of DNA that bacterial cells have
Envelope

16. Genetically identical copy
Nucleic acid - shape - what they infect
Through sneezing or touching
Clone
The virus cant reproduce - make proteins ot store energy without it

17. Rejoining of DNA
Temperate
DNA and RNA
Gene splicing
Nucleic acid - shape - what they infect

18. Another word for lytic
Viriulent
Rod and sphere
Only from parent to child
Prion

19. A circular piece of single stranded RNA that can cause disease found in plants
Pandemic
Viroid
Made up of cells - level of organization - able to reproduce - able to grow and develop - responds to stimuli - uses energy
DNA and RNA

20. A type of disease caused a problem with someone's DNA that leads to a miss a malfunctioning protein
Genetic disease
Reservoir
Viroid
Transmission

21. Explain the application of application of genetic engineering
Transgenic organisms
It is inserted into an organism and the organism uses that foreign DNA as its own
Pandemic
Isolation of the foreign DNA - Joining the DNA with the vehicle - Transfer to the recombinant DNA into a host

22. A living organism like an animal or insect that carries a pathogen from host to host
Pandemic
Viriulent
Vector
Epidemic

23. Anything that causes disease
The virus cant reproduce - make proteins ot store energy without it
Pathogen
Lytic
Plants dont have the plasmids or kinds of viruses needed for taking up the foreign pieces of DNA that bacterial cells have

24. What is recombinant DNA?
DNA made by connecting fragments of DNA from different sources
Envelope
Transmission
Clone

25. What is the use of a host for a virus?
Epidemic
Envelope
The virus cant reproduce - make proteins ot store energy without it
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

26. What are the characteristics of living things?
Clone
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
It is inserted into an organism and the organism uses that foreign DNA as its own

27. 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
Viral reproduction destroys the host cells and causes disease
Capsids
Made of DNA or RNA - capsid - sometimes an envelope

28. A local outbreak of disease
Transgenic organisms
Recombinant DNA technology
Viroid
Epidemic

29. How are viruses classified?
Communicable Disease
Gene splicing
Nucleic acid - shape - what they infect
Transgenic organisms

30. Possible extra outside coat on a virus
Rod and sphere
Transmission
Envelope
Vector

31. DNA that is made from pieces of DNA from 2 different organisms
Recombinant DNA
Viriulent
Through sneezing or touching
Isolation of the foreign DNA - Joining the DNA with the vehicle - Transfer to the recombinant DNA into a host

32. How can a genetic disease be passed...
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
It is inserted into an organism and the organism uses that foreign DNA as its own
Only from parent to child
Reservoir

33. Something that carries a piece of DNA or pathogen but is not affected by them
Vector
Transmission
Capsids
Host

34. Rod and sphere refers to the different ______ a virus can be...
Envelope
Shapes
Recombinant DNA
Only from parent to child

35. Creating DNA from RNA
Transmission
Reverse transcription
Prions
No

36. An organism in which the pathogen lives 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
It is inserted into an organism and the organism uses that foreign DNA as its own
Genes left behind by the DNA after it is gone

37. He original host; where the virus lives until it moves to humans; usually only has mild symptoms
Reservoir
Vector
Made of DNA or RNA - capsid - sometimes an envelope
Lytic

38. Are viruses living?
Gene splicing
Recombinant DNA technology
Genes left behind by the DNA after it is gone
No

39. Why is bacteria used to clone genes?
Through sneezing or touching
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
Genetic disease

40. A world wide break out of a disease
Recombinant DNA technology
Pandemic
Virus
Recombinant DNA

41. Type of disease caused by a pathogen (virus - bacteria - etc.) damaging cells in the body
Transmission
Rod and sphere
Vector
Communicable Disease

42. A non - living pathogen made of nucleic acid and protein
Virus
DNA sequencing
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

43. A non living pathogen made only of DNA
Viroid
Recombinant DNA
Prion
Pathogen

44. Virus that infects its host and stars reproducing right away making the host sick quickly
Pandemic
Made of DNA or RNA - capsid - sometimes an envelope
Lytic
Host

45. Outside protien coat of a virus
Transmission
Made up of cells - level of organization - able to reproduce - able to grow and develop - responds to stimuli - uses energy
DNA and RNA
Capsid

46. How do viruses cause disease?
Made of DNA or RNA - capsid - sometimes an envelope
Vector
Vector
Viral reproduction destroys the host cells and causes disease

47. What is the virus structure?
Transmission
No
Through sneezing or touching
Made of DNA or RNA - capsid - sometimes an envelope

48. How a pathogen gets from host to host
Transmission
Plants dont have the plasmids or kinds of viruses needed for taking up the foreign pieces of DNA that bacterial cells have
Reverse transcription
Through sneezing or touching

49. Another word for lysogenic
Reservoir
Transmission
Lytic
Temperate