Viruses
The protective protein cover of a virus.
What is the capsid?
A generic, highly common, and mild respiratory infection.
What is the common cold?
A key structure all prokaryotes lack.
What is the nucleus?
Commonly-used drugs that block the replication of bacteria.
What are antibiotics?
What is a pathogen?
Viruses specifically designed for infecting bacteria.
What are bacteriophages?
Widely used tools for building immunity against viral infections; often administered in phases to babies to prevent infant mortality.
What are vaccines?
The name of a round, clumped bacterium.
What is staphylococcus?
A (typically) mild, yet highly annoying bacterial infection often transmitted through raw poultry products.
What is salmonella?
"Extreme" bacteria; lack peptidoglycan.
What are archaebacteria?
A virus that has the ability to convert viral RNA to viral DNA.
What is a retrovirus?
Often called the "kissing-bug."
What is mono/mononucleosis?
Some common foods that bacteria help produce (try and name two).
What are dairy products, vinegar, pickles, etc.?
The original, groundbreaking mold used as an antibiotic.
What is penicillin?
The two processes allowing prokaryotes to reproduce.
What are conjugation and binary fission?
What is a lysogenic infection?
A viral infection that causes the victim to foam at the mouth, and if untreated, is invariably fatal.
What is rabies?
The difference between Gram positive and Gram negative bacteria.
What is the presence of peptidoglycan?
The bacterial disease infamous for presenting as a "Bull's-eye" rash and causing life-long joint pain.
What is Lyme's disease?
A highly toxic bacterial disease caused by improper food handling, storage, canning, and cooking.
What is botulism?
The American biochemist who, in 1935, who concluded viruses are not living organisms.
Who was Wendell Stanley?
The specific viral infection that, over the course of several years, destroys the immune system—leaving it vulnerable to other infections
What is HIV/AIDS?
The process—often done by bacteria—of converting ammonia to nitrates.
What is nitrification?
Another name for extremely dangerous, antibiotic resistant bacterial strains.
What are superbugs?
Infections, virus-like proteins with no nucleic acid whatsoever; notorious for causing zombie-like brain-degenerative diseases.
What are prions?