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Genetic Engineering And Virus

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1. Different shapes of a virus
Host
DNA made by connecting fragments of DNA from different sources
Virus
Rod and sphere

2. How a pathogen gets from host to host
Reverse transcription
Made of DNA or RNA - capsid - sometimes an envelope
No
Transmission

3. Why is bacteria used to clone genes?
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
Viral reproduction destroys the host cells and causes disease
It is inserted into an organism and the organism uses that foreign DNA as its own

4. How are viruses classified?
Through sneezing or touching
Made up of cells - level of organization - able to reproduce - able to grow and develop - responds to stimuli - uses energy
Host
Nucleic acid - shape - what they infect

5. Outside protien coat of a virus
Viral reproduction destroys the host cells and causes disease
Only from parent to child
Pandemic
Capsid

6. DNA that is made from pieces of DNA from 2 different organisms
Vector
Clone
No
Recombinant DNA

7. How a pathogen gets from its reservoir to its host
Temperate
Prion
Made of DNA or RNA - capsid - sometimes an envelope
Transmission

8. Rejoining of DNA
Genetic disease
Pathogen
DNA sequencing
Gene splicing

9. How can a communicable disease be passed?
Viral reproduction destroys the host cells and causes disease
Through sneezing or touching
Communicable Disease
Made of DNA or RNA - capsid - sometimes an envelope

10. Type of disease caused by a pathogen (virus - bacteria - etc.) damaging cells in the body
The virus cant reproduce - make proteins ot store energy without it
Communicable Disease
DNA sequencing
No

11. Things that can cause disease
Through sneezing or touching
Reverse transcription
Pathogens
Clone

12. Layer of protein surrounding the nucleic acid in a virus
Genetic disease
Communicable Disease
The virus cant reproduce - make proteins ot store energy without it
Capsids

13. A non living pathogen made only of DNA
Capsids
Viroid
Viriulent
Transgenic organisms

14. Possible extra outside coat on a virus
Only from parent to child
Envelope
Through sneezing or touching
Recombinant DNA technology

15. Genetically identical copy
Clone
The virus cant reproduce - make proteins ot store energy without it
No
Transmission

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

17. What is a DNA fingerprint?
Isolation of the foreign DNA - Joining the DNA with the vehicle - Transfer to the recombinant DNA into a host
Reverse transcription
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

18. A circular piece of single stranded RNA that can cause disease found in plants
Viroid
Capsids
Plants dont have the plasmids or kinds of viruses needed for taking up the foreign pieces of DNA that bacterial cells have
Pandemic

19. Normal body protein that has changed its 3d shape only - it has no DNA and can cause disease
Rod and sphere
Pathogen
DNA made by connecting fragments of DNA from different sources
Prions

20. Rod and sphere refers to the different ______ a virus can be...
Capsid
Made of DNA or RNA - capsid - sometimes an envelope
Viriulent
Shapes

21. What is the use of a host for a virus?
Envelope
The virus cant reproduce - make proteins ot store energy without it
Recombinant DNA
Pathogen

22. Why is it harder to genetically engineer a plant?
DNA sequencing
Plants dont have the plasmids or kinds of viruses needed for taking up the foreign pieces of DNA that bacterial cells have
DNA and RNA
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

23. An organism in which the pathogen lives and causes disease
Plants dont have the plasmids or kinds of viruses needed for taking up the foreign pieces of DNA that bacterial cells have
Pandemic
Recombinant DNA
Host

24. What is the virus structure?
Genetic disease
Pathogens
Isolation of the foreign DNA - Joining the DNA with the vehicle - Transfer to the recombinant DNA into a host
Made of DNA or RNA - capsid - sometimes an envelope

25. A world wide break out of a disease
Pathogens
Through sneezing or touching
DNA sequencing
Pandemic

26. A living organism like an animal or insect that carries a pathogen from host to host
Temperate
Vector
Virus
Capsids

27. A type of disease caused a problem with someone's DNA that leads to a miss a malfunctioning protein
It is inserted into an organism and the organism uses that foreign DNA as its own
Genetic disease
Viral reproduction destroys the host cells and causes disease
Lysogenic

28. A local outbreak of disease
Transmission
Lytic
Epidemic
Prion

29. Another word for lysogenic
Nucleic acid - shape - what they infect
No
Isolation of the foreign DNA - Joining the DNA with the vehicle - Transfer to the recombinant DNA into a host
Temperate

30. What is another name for genetic engineering?
Through sneezing or touching
Reservoir
Prions
Recombinant DNA technology

31. Explain the application of application of genetic engineering
It is inserted into an organism and the organism uses that foreign DNA as its own
No
Virus
Shapes

32. Figuring out the order of the letters in a strand of DNA
Gene splicing
Transmission
Communicable Disease
DNA sequencing

33. Something that carries a piece of DNA or pathogen but is not affected by them
Vector
DNA and RNA
Recombinant DNA
Only from parent to child

34. An organism that has recombinant DNA that functions
Transgenic organisms
Recombinant DNA
Transmission
Envelope

35. A non living pathogen made of only protien
Epidemic
Prion
Viral reproduction destroys the host cells and causes disease
Virus

36. How do viruses cause disease?
Made of DNA or RNA - capsid - sometimes an envelope
DNA made by connecting fragments of DNA from different sources
Viral reproduction destroys the host cells and causes disease
No

37. He original host; where the virus lives until it moves to humans; usually only has mild symptoms
Virus
Reservoir
Vector
Viroid

38. A non - living pathogen made of nucleic acid and protein
Made up of cells - level of organization - able to reproduce - able to grow and develop - responds to stimuli - uses energy
Vector
DNA and RNA
Virus

39. Anything that causes disease
Host
Pandemic
Made up of cells - level of organization - able to reproduce - able to grow and develop - responds to stimuli - uses energy
Pathogen

40. What is recombinant DNA?
Prions
Lysogenic
DNA made by connecting fragments of DNA from different sources
Only from parent to child

41. Creating DNA from RNA
Isolation of the foreign DNA - Joining the DNA with the vehicle - Transfer to the recombinant DNA into a host
Made of DNA or RNA - capsid - sometimes an envelope
Reverse transcription
DNA and RNA

42. Different types of nucleic acid
DNA and RNA
Prion
Envelope
Only from parent to child

43. What are the characteristics of living things?
Recombinant DNA
Viroid
Made up of cells - level of organization - able to reproduce - able to grow and develop - responds to stimuli - uses energy
No

44. What is the procedure for taking a piece of DNA form one organism and putting it into another?
Virus
Through sneezing or touching
Isolation of the foreign DNA - Joining the DNA with the vehicle - Transfer to the recombinant DNA into a host
Pathogens

45. Virus that pauses one it gets inside the cell and can lay dormant for days or years
Envelope
Lysogenic
Virus
Recombinant DNA technology

46. Are viruses living?
Capsid
Genetic disease
No
Gene splicing

47. Another word for lytic
No
Viriulent
Lysogenic
Capsids

48. Virus that infects its host and stars reproducing right away making the host sick quickly
Lytic
Made of DNA or RNA - capsid - sometimes an envelope
The virus cant reproduce - make proteins ot store energy without it
Envelope

49. A worldwide outbreak of a disease
It is inserted into an organism and the organism uses that foreign DNA as its own
Pandemic
Pathogen
Clone