Characteristics of Viruses
What is an organism called when a parasite is feeding on it?
What is a host?
What two parts do all viruses have?
What are the protein coat that protects the virus and the inner core made of genetic material?
What is the outer layer of the cell called?
What is the cell wall?
What are some bacterial cell shapes?
What is/are spiral-shaped cells?
What is/are rodlike shaped cells?
What are spherical-shaped cells?
What shapes can virus cells be seen as under a microscope? (One variation is all that you need to answer correctly)
What are tube-shaped?
What are round-shaped?
What are rod-shaped?
What are brick-shaped?
What are robot-like shaped?
What are bullet-like shaped?
How does a virus attach to a host cell?
What are its surface proteins?
What is the layer under the cell wall called?
How do bacterium cell obtain food?
What is through autotroph methods?
What is heterotroph methods?
What is the size range for most virus?
What is 22 nanometers to 7500 nanometers?
How do the surface proteins affect the virus other than allowing it to attach to the surface of a cell?
What is lock-and-key action? (This make the virus specific to certain species, and specific to which kinds of cells the virus can attack)
What are the whiplike structures called?
What is flagellum/flagella?
What is the term that is used to describe how bacterium cells break down food and release its energy?
What is respiration?
How are viruses named?
What is nontraditional methods (e.g. after the organism they attack, the name of the person that discovers the virus, the location it was found, etc)
What are the two types of virus reproduction called and how do they differ?
What are active viruses?
What are hidden viruses?
What is the gel-like material inside the cell membrane called?
What is cytoplasm?
How do bacterium cells reproduce?
What is asexual reproduction? (binary fission)
What is sexual reproduction? (conjugation)
What is a virus called that infects bacteria?
What is a bacteriophage?
What kind of therapy uses virus to treat chronic and debilitating diseases?
What is gene therapy?
What are the structures that manufacture proteins called?
How do bacteria survive unfavorable environmental conditions?
What is an endospore?