Genome Organization

Question 1

Genome

Answer 1

The entire set of genetic material for an organism

Question 2

Bacteriophages

Answer 2

Viruses useing bacteria as hosts, aka phage

Question 3

Cell lysis

Answer 3

The process of phages replicated in bacteria breaking their host cells open to escape

Question 4

Virulent phages

Answer 4

Viruses that kill their hosts with cell lysis through the lytic cycle

Question 5

Lysogenic cycle

Answer 5

The process of viruses inserting themselves into bacterial DNA to lay dormant prior to cell lysis

Question 6

Prophages

Answer 6

Viruses that are dormant in bacteria

Question 7

Temperate Phages

Answer 7

Viruses that are capable of undergoing the lysogenic cycle

Question 8

Negative RNA virus

Answer 8

Must produce a complimentary strand before it can be translated

Question 9

Positive RNA virus

Answer 9

Can be translated directly

Question 10

Ambi-sense RNA virus

Answer 10

Have characteristics of both positive and negative RNA viruses

Question 11

Retroviruses

Answer 11

RNA viruses that integrate into a host cell producing proviruses

Question 12

Chromatosome

Answer 12

Fundamental unit of chromatin with a nucleosome (146 bp wrapped around 8 histones) the link and a H1

Question 13

DNA supercoiling

Answer 13

A method of twisting DNA plasmids to reduce space, either positive supercoil from overrotating or negative supercoiling from underrotating

Question 14

Topoisomerase

Answer 14

Proteins that make a cut to cause supercoiling.