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Genetic Engineering And Virus

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1. Explain the application of application of genetic engineering
Host
Through sneezing or touching
It is inserted into an organism and the organism uses that foreign DNA as its own
Pathogen

2. Normal body protein that has changed its 3d shape only - it has no DNA and can cause disease
Vector
Prions
Isolation of the foreign DNA - Joining the DNA with the vehicle - Transfer to the recombinant DNA into a host
Capsids

3. An organism that has recombinant DNA that functions
Lysogenic
Transgenic organisms
Capsid
Pandemic

4. A worldwide outbreak of a disease
Viroid
Pandemic
Through sneezing or touching
Clone

5. A world wide break out of a disease
Vector
Shapes
Pandemic
Lysogenic

6. What is recombinant DNA?
Recombinant DNA technology
DNA made by connecting fragments of DNA from different sources
Isolation of the foreign DNA - Joining the DNA with the vehicle - Transfer to the recombinant DNA into a host
Genetic disease

7. How are viruses classified?
Nucleic acid - shape - what they infect
Epidemic
Communicable Disease
Temperate

8. Another word for lysogenic
Temperate
Plants dont have the plasmids or kinds of viruses needed for taking up the foreign pieces of DNA that bacterial cells have
Vector
Recombinant DNA technology

9. What is another name for genetic engineering?
It is inserted into an organism and the organism uses that foreign DNA as its own
Genetic disease
Isolation of the foreign DNA - Joining the DNA with the vehicle - Transfer to the recombinant DNA into a host
Recombinant DNA technology

10. An organism in which the pathogen lives and causes disease
Made of DNA or RNA - capsid - sometimes an envelope
Host
Nucleic acid - shape - what they infect
Reservoir

11. Figuring out the order of the letters in a strand of DNA
It is inserted into an organism and the organism uses that foreign DNA as its own
No
Prion
DNA sequencing

12. What are the characteristics of living things?
Genes left behind by the DNA after it is gone
Made up of cells - level of organization - able to reproduce - able to grow and develop - responds to stimuli - uses energy
Rod and sphere
Viroid

13. How do viruses cause disease?
Viral reproduction destroys the host cells and causes disease
Reverse transcription
Pathogens
Clone

14. Type of disease caused by a pathogen (virus - bacteria - etc.) damaging cells in the body
Pandemic
It is inserted into an organism and the organism uses that foreign DNA as its own
Pathogen
Communicable Disease

15. What is the procedure for taking a piece of DNA form one organism and putting it into another?
It is inserted into an organism and the organism uses that foreign DNA as its own
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
Prions
Isolation of the foreign DNA - Joining the DNA with the vehicle - Transfer to the recombinant DNA into a host

16. Possible extra outside coat on a virus
Envelope
Lytic
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

17. A type of disease caused a problem with someone's DNA that leads to a miss a malfunctioning protein
Made of DNA or RNA - capsid - sometimes an envelope
Genetic disease
Only from parent to child
DNA made by connecting fragments of DNA from different sources

18. Genetically identical copy
Reservoir
Clone
Transmission
Through sneezing or touching

19. What is the use of a host for a virus?
DNA sequencing
Epidemic
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

20. 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
Viroid
Vector
Lytic

21. Different types of nucleic acid
DNA and RNA
The virus cant reproduce - make proteins ot store energy without it
Transmission
Genes left behind by the DNA after it is gone

22. DNA that is made from pieces of DNA from 2 different organisms
No
Clone
Gene splicing
Recombinant DNA

23. Something that carries a piece of DNA or pathogen but is not affected by them
Through sneezing or touching
Transmission
Prions
Vector

24. Anything that causes disease
Pathogen
Transmission
Viroid
Reverse transcription

25. He original host; where the virus lives until it moves to humans; usually only has mild symptoms
Clone
Host
Reservoir
Capsid

26. A non living pathogen made only of DNA
Viroid
Made up of cells - level of organization - able to reproduce - able to grow and develop - responds to stimuli - uses energy
Reverse transcription
Pathogens

27. A non living pathogen made of only protien
Communicable Disease
Prion
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

28. Why is it harder to genetically engineer a plant?
Viroid
Plants dont have the plasmids or kinds of viruses needed for taking up the foreign pieces of DNA that bacterial cells have
Nucleic acid - shape - what they infect
DNA sequencing

29. Virus that infects its host and stars reproducing right away making the host sick quickly
DNA and RNA
Lytic
Envelope
Pandemic

30. Outside protien coat of a virus
The virus cant reproduce - make proteins ot store energy without it
Capsid
Reverse transcription
Genetic disease

31. Rod and sphere refers to the different ______ a virus can be...
Lytic
Genes left behind by the DNA after it is gone
Capsids
Shapes

32. Another word for lytic
Viriulent
Plants dont have the plasmids or kinds of viruses needed for taking up the foreign pieces of DNA that bacterial cells have
DNA sequencing
Genetic disease

33. How can a genetic disease be passed...
Only from parent to child
Clone
Pathogens
Rod and sphere

34. Are viruses living?
Isolation of the foreign DNA - Joining the DNA with the vehicle - Transfer to the recombinant DNA into a host
Pandemic
Reverse transcription
No

35. A non - living pathogen made of nucleic acid and protein
Vector
Virus
It is inserted into an organism and the organism uses that foreign DNA as its own
Made up of cells - level of organization - able to reproduce - able to grow and develop - responds to stimuli - uses energy

36. A local outbreak of disease
Epidemic
Made up of cells - level of organization - able to reproduce - able to grow and develop - responds to stimuli - uses energy
Reservoir
Shapes

37. A living organism like an animal or insect that carries a pathogen from host to host
DNA made by connecting fragments of DNA from different sources
Lysogenic
Host
Vector

38. Things that can cause disease
Epidemic
Pathogens
Genetic disease
Virus

39. Layer of protein surrounding the nucleic acid in a virus
Capsids
Viroid
Pandemic
Transmission

40. How can a communicable disease be passed?
Through sneezing or touching
Reverse transcription
Made up of cells - level of organization - able to reproduce - able to grow and develop - responds to stimuli - uses energy
Vector

41. Creating DNA from RNA
Rod and sphere
Nucleic acid - shape - what they infect
DNA and RNA
Reverse transcription

42. What is a DNA fingerprint?
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
Genes left behind by the DNA after it is gone
Viral reproduction destroys the host cells and causes disease

43. A circular piece of single stranded RNA that can cause disease found in plants
Lysogenic
Viroid
Capsids
Shapes

44. How a pathogen gets from host to host
Made up of cells - level of organization - able to reproduce - able to grow and develop - responds to stimuli - uses energy
Transmission
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

45. 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
Communicable Disease
Lysogenic
Genes left behind by the DNA after it is gone

46. How a pathogen gets from its reservoir to its host
Recombinant DNA
Transmission
The virus cant reproduce - make proteins ot store energy without it
Viroid

47. Rejoining of DNA
Envelope
Genetic disease
Viroid
Gene splicing

48. What is the virus structure?
Nucleic acid - shape - what they infect
Through sneezing or touching
Made of DNA or RNA - capsid - sometimes an envelope
Transgenic organisms

49. 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
Viroid
Lytic
Rod and sphere