Bacteria are classified as this type of orgnanism because they don't have a nucleus.
What is a prokaryote?
100
A living organism that a virus or parisite lives on or in.
What is a host
100
X-rays, cigarette smoke and ultra violet light can be these.
What is a mutagen
100
The biological treatment of hazardous waste by living organisms.
What is bioremediation?
200
This heterotrophic protist moves by use of a pseudopod.
What is an amoeba?
200
These are the three shapes of bacteria.
What are bacilli, cocci, and spiralla?
200
This is the only function of life that a virus completes.
What is reproduction?
200
A disease that is caused by a pathogen and that can spread from one individual to another.
What is an infectious disease
200
This biotechnology is used by the Criminal Justice System.
What is DNA identification?
300
This protist acts as an autotroph using an eyespot to detect and then move toward sunlight, but may be heterotrophic when enough sunlight is not availabe.
What is an eugleena
300
This thick walled protective spore forms inside a bacterial celle and resists harsh conditions.
What is an endospore?
300
These are the four basic shapes of viruses.
What are crystals, spheres, cylinders, bacteraphage
300
The ability to resist or to recover from an infectious disease.
What is an immunity?
300
This biotechnology is used by the agriculture industry to increase crop production and increase shelf life.
What is genetic engineering?
400
This heterotrophic protist has both a macro and a micro nucleus and uses cilia to sweep food toward its food passageway.
What is a paramecium?
400
Bacteria reproduce in this manner.
What is binary fission?
400
At the end of this reproductive cycle of viruses the host cell is destroyed.
What is the lytic cycle?
400
a virus, microorganism, or other organism that causes disease.
What is a pathogen?
400
This medicine for the treatment of diabetes is created by bacteria which have a human gene spliced into their DNA.
What is insulin.
500
These algae protists form in round colonies. The colony rolls along as each organism correctly flaps its flaggela in unison to move the colony. Daughter colonies form inside the parent colony as organisms reproduce.
What is volvox?
500
Bacteria in the soil perform this function which supplies an important nutrient to plants.
What is nitrogen fixation?
500
Althougth this medicine will kill some bacteria it will not kill viruses.
What is an antibiotic?
500
Cancer and heart disease are this type of disease.
What is a noninfectious disease?
500
North Carolina's rank in the number of biotechnology companies in the U.S.