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Genetic Engineering And Virus

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1. Layer of protein surrounding the nucleic acid in a virus
Reverse transcription
Capsids
No
Recombinant DNA technology

2. How can a communicable disease be passed?
Lysogenic
Envelope
Through sneezing or touching
Capsids

3. How a pathogen gets from host to host
Transmission
The virus cant reproduce - make proteins ot store energy without it
DNA sequencing
Nucleic acid - shape - what they infect

4. Possible extra outside coat on a virus
Lytic
Envelope
Rod and sphere
Clone

5. A non living pathogen made of only protien
Prion
Made up of cells - level of organization - able to reproduce - able to grow and develop - responds to stimuli - uses energy
Host
DNA and RNA

6. How are viruses classified?
It is inserted into an organism and the organism uses that foreign DNA as its own
Vector
Pandemic
Nucleic acid - shape - what they infect

7. An organism that has recombinant DNA that functions
Temperate
Reverse transcription
Transgenic organisms
Epidemic

8. A living organism like an animal or insect that carries a pathogen from host to host
Vector
Gene splicing
Transmission
Pandemic

9. How a pathogen gets from its reservoir to its host
Transgenic organisms
Reservoir
Temperate
Transmission

10. Things that can cause disease
Reverse transcription
Pathogens
Vector
Shapes

11. How do viruses cause disease?
Viral reproduction destroys the host cells and causes disease
Vector
Communicable Disease
Epidemic

12. How can a genetic disease be passed...
Shapes
Made of DNA or RNA - capsid - sometimes an envelope
Only from parent to child
Clone

13. Normal body protein that has changed its 3d shape only - it has no DNA and can cause disease
Rod and sphere
Prions
Made of DNA or RNA - capsid - sometimes an envelope
Genes left behind by the DNA after it is gone

14. An organism in which the pathogen lives and causes disease
Pandemic
Rod and sphere
Host
Genetic disease

15. Explain the application of application of genetic engineering
Pandemic
No
Gene splicing
It is inserted into an organism and the organism uses that foreign DNA as its own

16. Type of disease caused by a pathogen (virus - bacteria - etc.) damaging cells in the body
Communicable Disease
Transmission
Nucleic acid - shape - what they infect
Shapes

17. A world wide break out of a 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
DNA sequencing
Temperate
Pandemic

18. Different types of nucleic acid
Prion
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
Pathogens

19. Why is bacteria used to clone genes?
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
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

20. A worldwide outbreak of a disease
Genes left behind by the DNA after it is gone
Reverse transcription
Pandemic
Made up of cells - level of organization - able to reproduce - able to grow and develop - responds to stimuli - uses energy

21. Outside protien coat of a virus
Prions
DNA and RNA
Reservoir
Capsid

22. A non - living pathogen made of nucleic acid and protein
Virus
Only from parent to child
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
Lytic

23. What is a DNA fingerprint?
Genes left behind by the DNA after it is gone
Clone
Envelope
No

24. Why is it harder to genetically engineer a plant?
Reverse transcription
The virus cant reproduce - make proteins ot store energy without it
Plants dont have the plasmids or kinds of viruses needed for taking up the foreign pieces of DNA that bacterial cells have
Capsid

25. 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
Shapes
Viroid
Reverse transcription

26. Rod and sphere refers to the different ______ a virus can be...
Only from parent to child
Nucleic acid - shape - what they infect
Shapes
Gene splicing

27. A circular piece of single stranded RNA that can cause disease found in plants
Pathogen
Pandemic
Viroid
Vector

28. Creating DNA from RNA
Reverse transcription
Epidemic
Virus
Rod and sphere

29. Figuring out the order of the letters in a strand of DNA
DNA sequencing
Reservoir
Through sneezing or touching
Clone

30. DNA that is made from pieces of DNA from 2 different organisms
Genetic disease
Only from parent to child
Prion
Recombinant DNA

31. Different shapes of a virus
Vector
Rod and sphere
Reservoir
Capsids

32. Anything that causes disease
Viral reproduction destroys the host cells and causes disease
Transmission
Pathogen
It is inserted into an organism and the organism uses that foreign DNA as its own

33. Another word for lysogenic
DNA sequencing
Temperate
Gene splicing
Clone

34. Virus that infects its host and stars reproducing right away making the host sick quickly
Viriulent
Plants dont have the plasmids or kinds of viruses needed for taking up the foreign pieces of DNA that bacterial cells have
Envelope
Lytic

35. Rejoining of DNA
Pandemic
Gene splicing
Prions
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

36. What are the characteristics of living things?
Made up of cells - level of organization - able to reproduce - able to grow and develop - responds to stimuli - uses energy
Prions
Pathogens
Host

37. What is the virus structure?
Epidemic
Transmission
Made of DNA or RNA - capsid - sometimes an envelope
Pandemic

38. He original host; where the virus lives until it moves to humans; usually only has mild symptoms
Gene splicing
Capsids
Genes left behind by the DNA after it is gone
Reservoir

39. Another word for lytic
No
Genetic disease
Pandemic
Viriulent

40. Virus that pauses one it gets inside the cell and can lay dormant for days or years
Vector
Lysogenic
Pandemic
Genes left behind by the DNA after it is gone

41. What is the use of a host for a virus?
Vector
The virus cant reproduce - make proteins ot store energy without it
Lytic
DNA sequencing

42. What is another name for genetic engineering?
Capsid
DNA and RNA
Recombinant DNA technology
Pathogen

43. Are viruses living?
Viriulent
No
Envelope
Plants dont have the plasmids or kinds of viruses needed for taking up the foreign pieces of DNA that bacterial cells have

44. A non living pathogen made only of DNA
Vector
Pandemic
Epidemic
Viroid

45. Genetically identical copy
Clone
Transmission
Gene splicing
Transmission

46. Something that carries a piece of DNA or pathogen but is not affected by them
Vector
Viriulent
Transmission
The virus cant reproduce - make proteins ot store energy without it

47. A type of disease caused a problem with someone's DNA that leads to a miss a malfunctioning protein
Made up of cells - level of organization - able to reproduce - able to grow and develop - responds to stimuli - uses energy
Lytic
Genetic disease
Capsids

48. A local outbreak of disease
Host
Rod and sphere
Epidemic
Viroid

49. What is recombinant DNA?
Transgenic organisms
Virus
DNA made by connecting fragments of DNA from different sources
Epidemic