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Genetic Engineering And Virus

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1. A worldwide outbreak of a disease
Pandemic
Gene splicing
Reverse transcription
Recombinant DNA

2. Explain the application of application of genetic engineering
Host
It is inserted into an organism and the organism uses that foreign DNA as its own
Plants dont have the plasmids or kinds of viruses needed for taking up the foreign pieces of DNA that bacterial cells have
DNA made by connecting fragments of DNA from different sources

3. Virus that pauses one it gets inside the cell and can lay dormant for days or years
Shapes
Genetic disease
Recombinant DNA
Lysogenic

4. A local outbreak of disease
Made up of cells - level of organization - able to reproduce - able to grow and develop - responds to stimuli - uses energy
Through sneezing or touching
Transmission
Epidemic

5. Things that can cause disease
Viroid
Pathogens
Transmission
Temperate

6. How a pathogen gets from its reservoir to its host
Pathogens
Envelope
Transmission
Lysogenic

7. What is recombinant DNA?
Prion
Prions
Reverse transcription
DNA made by connecting fragments of DNA from different sources

8. Why is bacteria used to clone genes?
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
Clone
Plants dont have the plasmids or kinds of viruses needed for taking up the foreign pieces of DNA that bacterial cells have

9. Creating DNA from RNA
Host
Envelope
Reverse transcription
Vector

10. Different types of nucleic acid
Made of DNA or RNA - capsid - sometimes an envelope
Pathogens
Capsid
DNA and RNA

11. Figuring out the order of the letters in a strand of DNA
Envelope
Temperate
Viriulent
DNA sequencing

12. Virus that infects its host and stars reproducing right away making the host sick quickly
Shapes
Lytic
Viroid
Nucleic acid - shape - what they infect

13. A non living pathogen made only of DNA
Viroid
Envelope
Lytic
Plants dont have the plasmids or kinds of viruses needed for taking up the foreign pieces of DNA that bacterial cells have

14. Are viruses living?
Temperate
Isolation of the foreign DNA - Joining the DNA with the vehicle - Transfer to the recombinant DNA into a host
Transmission
No

15. What is the use of a host for a virus?
The virus cant reproduce - make proteins ot store energy without it
Viral reproduction destroys the host cells and causes disease
Capsids
Vector

16. Normal body protein that has changed its 3d shape only - it has no DNA and can cause disease
Prions
Lysogenic
Vector
Made up of cells - level of organization - able to reproduce - able to grow and develop - responds to stimuli - uses energy

17. Outside protien coat of a virus
Gene splicing
It is inserted into an organism and the organism uses that foreign DNA as its own
Capsid
Transmission

18. A world wide break out of a disease
Pandemic
Host
Viroid
Reservoir

19. What is the virus structure?
Pandemic
Viroid
Prion
Made of DNA or RNA - capsid - sometimes an envelope

20. Rejoining of DNA
Gene splicing
Communicable Disease
Transmission
Viroid

21. A type of disease caused a problem with someone's DNA that leads to a miss a malfunctioning protein
Genetic disease
Reverse transcription
Virus
Through sneezing or touching

22. A non living pathogen made of only protien
Gene splicing
Prion
Virus
Genetic disease

23. An organism that has recombinant DNA that functions
Viral reproduction destroys the host cells and causes disease
Transgenic organisms
DNA made by connecting fragments of DNA from different sources
Reverse transcription

24. An organism in which the pathogen lives and causes disease
Capsids
Clone
Host
Pandemic

25. How are viruses classified?
Prions
Nucleic acid - shape - what they infect
Genetic disease
Pathogen

26. What is a DNA fingerprint?
Viral reproduction destroys the host cells and causes disease
Reverse transcription
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

27. How can a communicable disease be passed?
Shapes
It is inserted into an organism and the organism uses that foreign DNA as its own
Through sneezing or touching
Rod and sphere

28. Rod and sphere refers to the different ______ a virus can be...
Prions
Shapes
Genes left behind by the DNA after it is gone
Through sneezing or touching

29. Different shapes of a virus
Only from parent to child
Isolation of the foreign DNA - Joining the DNA with the vehicle - Transfer to the recombinant DNA into a host
Gene splicing
Rod and sphere

30. DNA that is made from pieces of DNA from 2 different organisms
Recombinant DNA
Communicable Disease
Viriulent
Reservoir

31. A circular piece of single stranded RNA that can cause disease found in plants
Viroid
Vector
Vector
Made of DNA or RNA - capsid - sometimes an envelope

32. How can a genetic disease be passed...
Epidemic
Only from parent to child
Reverse transcription
Transmission

33. Why is it harder to genetically engineer a plant?
Lytic
No
Plants dont have the plasmids or kinds of viruses needed for taking up the foreign pieces of DNA that bacterial cells have
The virus cant reproduce - make proteins ot store energy without it

34. Possible extra outside coat on a virus
Rod and sphere
Genetic disease
Envelope
Clone

35. He original host; where the virus lives until it moves to humans; usually only has mild symptoms
Reservoir
Prions
Recombinant DNA
Lytic

36. 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
Gene splicing
Plants dont have the plasmids or kinds of viruses needed for taking up the foreign pieces of DNA that bacterial cells have
Epidemic

37. Another word for lytic
Epidemic
Genetic disease
Transmission
Viriulent

38. How a pathogen gets from host to host
Clone
Vector
Transmission
Pathogens

39. A non - living pathogen made of nucleic acid and protein
Transmission
Virus
Through sneezing or touching
Prions

40. How do viruses cause disease?
Viroid
Vector
Viral reproduction destroys the host cells and causes disease
Shapes

41. Anything that causes disease
Pathogen
Reservoir
Clone
Nucleic acid - shape - what they infect

42. Layer of protein surrounding the nucleic acid in a virus
No
Capsids
Virus
Prion

43. Genetically identical copy
Shapes
Nucleic acid - shape - what they infect
Clone
DNA sequencing

44. Type of disease caused by a pathogen (virus - bacteria - etc.) damaging cells in the body
Genes left behind by the DNA after it is gone
Communicable Disease
Host
Reverse transcription

45. What are the characteristics of living things?
Viral reproduction destroys the host cells and causes disease
Lytic
Made up of cells - level of organization - able to reproduce - able to grow and develop - responds to stimuli - uses energy
Temperate

46. What is another name for genetic engineering?
Rod and sphere
Only from parent to child
DNA and RNA
Recombinant DNA technology

47. Something that carries a piece of DNA or pathogen but is not affected by them
Nucleic acid - shape - what they infect
Vector
Reverse transcription
Isolation of the foreign DNA - Joining the DNA with the vehicle - Transfer to the recombinant DNA into a host

48. A living organism like an animal or insect that carries a pathogen from host to host
No
Shapes
Capsid
Vector

49. Another word for lysogenic
Temperate
Communicable Disease
Vector
DNA made by connecting fragments of DNA from different sources