Pathogens
Name a pathogen that is not living.
Virus, Viroid, Prion
What does a virus inject into a cell?
Genetic Material
What is a pandemic?
Worldwide spread of a disease
What is the purpose of an endospore?
Protect the cell from extreme temperatures, drying, or disinfectants
What is one way that bacteria help us?
Digestion, Vitamin production, fight off bad bacteria
Infectious particle made of a protein coat and a strand of DNA. Cannot be seen by a microscope.
Virus
What does a virus use to attach and enter into a cell?
Spike Protein
What is the best defense against a pathogen?
Healthy Immune System
Obligate anaerobes are bacteria that __________
are poisoned when in contact with oxygen
How do we help bacteria?
Food and a safe home
Unicellular prokaryotic organisms that include some that are pathogenic.
Bacteria
Which type of infection causes a cell to burst to release the assembles viruses?
Lytic
Inactivated vaccines work by injecting what?
Inactivated virus
The bacteria cell wall is made out of __________
Peptidoglycan
What does it mean to be pasteurized?
make something safe to consume through partial sterilization
infectious particle that only infects plants. Made of RNA without a protein coat.
Viroid
What type of infection involves viral DNA being passed on through bacterial reproduction?
Lysogenic
Can you take a vaccine for bacteria?
Absolutely
Ex. Meningitis
What shape is this bacterium?
Lactobacillus
Rod shaped
Mishandling of antibiotics has led to what issue?
Antibiotic resistance
Infectious protein
Prion
The viral DNA that is embedded inside of the bacterial DNA is called a _________.
Prophage
What is an antibody?
Protein that binds to foreign things in the body.
Bacteria can only populate an area by splitting in a process called what?
Binary Fission
What are the TWO ways bacteria cause us harm?
1. Produce Toxins
2. Eat/Destroy Tissue