Viruses
Bacteria
Vocabulary
KeyConcepts
Riddles
100
The only way in which viruses are like organisms is that they can do this.
What is multiply?
100
In the late 1600, this Dutch merchant found bacteria by looking at scrapings from his teeth.
Who is Anton Van Leeuwenhoek?
100
A tiny, nonliving particle that invades and then multiplies inside a living cell.
What is virus?
100
All viruses have two basic parts:
What is an outer coat that protects the virus and an inner core of genetic material?
100
What is once in a minute, twice in a moment, but never in a thousand years?
The letter M.
200
Most cold viruses infect only in these parts of a human body.
What is/are nose and/or throat
200
A bacteria's flagellum helps it do this.
What is move?
200
A virus that infects bacteria.
What is bacteriophage?
200
Once inside a cell, the virus's genetic material takes over many of the cell's functions. The genetic material instructs the cell to produce the virus's proteins and genetic material, which then---
What is assembles into new viruses?
200
What can be swallowed, but can also swallow you?
Pride.
300
These are two types of viruses.
What are Active and Hidden Viruses
300
Bacteria reproduce in a process called this.
What is binary fussion?
300
A form of asexual reproduction in which one cell divides to form two identical cell.
What is binary fission?
300
To recover from a viral disease:
What is rest, drink plenty of fluids, and eating well balanced meals?
300
I am as large as a castle, yet lighter than air. 100 men and their horses cannot move me. What am I?
the castle's shadow.
400
Ways viral diseases can be spread.
What is/are contact through a contaminated object, bite through an infectious animal, tiny drops of moisture that an infected person sneezes or coughs into the air, contact with body fluids.
400
Endospores form under this condition.
What is helping bacteria survive in harsh conditions?
400
The process in which a unicellular organisms transfers some of its genetic material to another unicellular organism.
What is conjugation?
400
T or F? Bacteria must have a source of food and a way of breaking down the food to release its energy.
What is True?
400
A farmer in California owns a beautiful pear tree. He supplies the fruit to a nearby grocery store. The store owner has called the farmer to see how much fruit is avaliable for him to purchase. The farmer knows the main trunk has 24 branches. Each branch has exactly 12 boughs and each bough has exactly 6 twigs. Sinch each twig bears one piece of fruit, how many plums will the farmer be able to deliver?
None. A plum tree does not bear plums.
500
This is used to prevent/destroy viruses and other organisms entering the body that might cause disease.
What is vaccine.
500
Pasteurization is this.
What is heating the food to a high temerature that kills harmful bacteria without changing the taste of the food?
500
A small, rounded, thick walled, resting cell that forms inside a bacterial cell.
What is endospore?
500
Bacteria are involved in oxygen and food production, environmental recycling, and cleanup, and in health maintence and this.
What is medicine production?
500
Here on earth, it is true yesterday is always before today; but there is a place where yesterday always follow today. Where?
in a dictionary.
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