Viruses
This is the outer part of a virus that protects its genetic material.
What is the protein coat?
Bacteria are classified as these types of organisms because their genetic material isn't enclosed in a nucleus.
What are prokaryotes?
These protists are similar to animals and can move to obtain food.
What are animal-like protists (or protozoa)?
These thread-like structures make up the body of most fungi.
What are hyphae?
This term describes organisms that make their own food.
What are autotrophs?
These viruses specifically attack and destroy bacteria.
What are bacteriophages?
This is the method by which bacteria reproduce asexually.
What is binary fission?
This structure in some protists helps regulate water content within the cell.
What is a contractile vacuole?
This reproductive structure of fungi is lightweight and easily dispersed.
What is a spore?
Bacteria and fungi play this important ecological role in breaking down dead organisms.
What are decomposers?
This term refers to a tiny nonliving particle that invades a living cell and multiplies.
What is a virus?
This whip-like structure, found on some bacteria, allows them to move.
What is a flagellum?
These hair-like structures help some protists move.
What are cilia?
This symbiotic organism is composed of a fungus and an alga.
What is a lichen?
Unlike bacteria, these organisms have their genetic material enclosed in a nucleus.
What are eukaryotes?
This is the process by which a virus's genetic material takes control of a cell and instructs it to produce new viruses.
What is viral replication?
This process is used to kill harmful bacteria in food and beverages by heating them to a high temperature.
What is pasteurization?
This term describes a mutually beneficial relationship between two different species.
What is mutualism?
This process is how yeast reproduces asexually.
What is budding?
This term describes the relationship where one organism benefits at the expense of another.
What is parasitism?
This type of virus is known to remain dormant inside the host cell before becoming active.
What is a hidden virus?
The shape of bacteria that cause Lyme disease.
What is spiral?
The type of protists that are mostly parasitic symbiotic relationship.
What are animal-like or protozoans?
An organelle that a fungi does not have compare to a plant.
What is a chloroplast?
In a lichen, these two organisms live together in a symbiotic relationship.
What are fungi and algae?