Prokaryotes
What three characteristics are used to classify prokaryotes?
What are shape, how they move, and how they get energy?
Bacteriophages infect what type of organism?
What are bacteria?
How do bacteria cause disease?
What is by destroying cells and releasing toxins?
Which bacterial shape is a coccus?
What is a spherical-shaped bacterium?
During which cycle is the host cell destroyed?
What is the lytic cycle?
Prokaryotes that break down dead organisms and wastes are called what?
What are decomposers?
The instructions for making new copies of a virus are coded in what?
What is RNA or DNA?
Which of the following is NOT caused by bacteria: tooth decay, tuberculosis, AIDS, or Lyme disease?
What is AIDS?
The structure that contains peptidoglycan in bacteria but not in archaea is what?
What is the cell wall?
During which cycle does the viral DNA integrate with the host’s DNA?
What is the lysogenic cycle?
During what process do prokaryotes exchange genetic information?
What is conjugation?
Every virus is made up of what two components?
What are nucleic acid and protein?
An unknown disease or one that becomes harder to control is called what?
What is an emerging disease?
What is the spiral-shaped prokaryote called?
What is a spirillum?
How does a virus insert its' DNA or RNA into a cell
It tricks the host cell and the host cell can't recognize its' own DNA or RNA from that of a virus
The process by which prokaryotes change nitrogen gas to a form plants can use is called what?
What is nitrogen fixation?
The protective protein coating around some viruses
What is the capsid?
What did Louis Pasteur help establish when he showed bacteria cause illness?
What is the germ theory of disease?
Genetic material inside of a virus
What is DNA and RNA
At what stage does the host cell begin producing new bacteriophages?
replication stage
Bacteria and archaea differ in what feature?
What is the makeup of their cell walls?
Peptidoglycan
What is a prophage?
What is viral DNA that becomes part of a host cell’s DNA?
Viral infections can be prevented by what biological preparation?
What are vaccines (weakened or killed viruses)?
cocci (spherical), bacilli (rod-shaped), and spirilla (spiral or helical)
Compare the two cycles: which one can remain dormant before activation?
What is the lysogenic cycle?