Vocabulary
A protein that can attach to a pathogen and make it useless.
What is an antibody?
The use of organisms, such as bacteria, to clean up environmental pollution.
What is Bioremediation?
An agent that causes disease:
a. vaccine
b. Viruses
c. Pathogen
What is Pathogen?
A mixture containing material from one or more deactivated pathogens, such as a viruses.
What is a vaccine?
Bacteria helps to make Vitamin C in a person's digestive system.
False. What is Vitamin K.
The breaking down of dead organisms and organic waste.
What is decomposition?
Process of heating food or liquid to a temperature that kills most harmful bacteria.
What is pasteurization?
Helpful bacteria can do all the following except:
a. preserve canned food
b. digest dead organisms
c. help clean up soils.
What is preserve canned food?
Viral DNA or RNA changes as viruses replicate, allowing viruses to adjust to changes in host cells.
What is a viral mutation?
A virus is a strand of DNA or RNA surrounded by a layer of protein that can infect and replicate a host cell.
What is true?
A long whiplike structure on many bacteria.
What is flagella?
Cell division that forms two genetically identical cells.
What is fission?
Which explains how mutations benefit a virus:
a. It enables the virus resist antibiotic therapy
b. it enables the virus to adjust to changes in the host cell.
c. it enables the virus to travel from host to host
What is it enable the virus to adjust to changes in the host cell?
List the 4 shapes of viruses.
What are cylinder, sphere, crystal, and bacteriophage?
Bacteria can only live on land.
What is false? Bacteria are found everywhere.
a medicine that stops the growth and reproduction of bacteria
What is antibiotic?
A process during which two bacteria of the same species attach to each other and combine their genetic material.
What is conjugation?
Vaccines stimulate the production of:
a. Protein
b. DNA and RNA
c. Antibodies
What is antibodies?
The 3 basic shapes of bacteria.
What is rod, spiral, and sphere?
One type of bioremediation uses vaccines to break down wastes and pollutants into less harmful materials.
false. What is bacteria?
A microscopic prokaryote
What is Bacteria?
The process that changes atmospheric nitrogen into nitrogen compounds that are usable by living things.
What is Nitrogen Fixation?
Best describe a virus:
a. Viruses are considered living things.
b. viruses are considered living things
c. All viruses contain genetic material (DNA/RNA)
What is all viruses contain genetic material?
Compare bacteria and viruses.
What is bacteria are living, viruses are not living. Bacteria are larger than viruses, and viruses can only reproduce with a host.
When a person is vaccinated against a virus and develops an immune response, it is a natural immunity.
False. What is an acquired immunity?