Bacteria
A tail-like structure that helps to propel a bacterial cell forward...
What is a flagella?
T/F Viruses are larger than bacteria
what is false
When a contagious disease moves to many geographical areas...
What is a pandemic
This is the term for any bacteria, virus or microorganism that can make you sick.
What is pathogen
List at least 3 diseases caused by bacteria.
Answers may vary: strep throat, staph, MRSA, pneumonia, the plague, UTIs, many STDs
A living thing that provides a source of energy for a virus.
What is a host.
Name two positive uses of viruses.
What is manufacture of vaccines and pest control.
A simple cell that lacks a nucleus.
What is a prokaryote
What are some common shapes of bacteria?
Round (spherical) and rod shaped
A virus is a living organism
True or False
FALSE,
but it sometimes acts like a living thing
The structure of viruses includes what two simple things?
What are protein coat and genetic material?
The outer envelope of a virus that has attached protein.
What viral envelope.
The four ways that infectious diseases spread
What is through contact with an infected person (air), a contaminated object (food), an infected animal (vector), or sexual contact or possibly through contaminated water.
Bacterial reproduction that is asexual in nature.
What is Binary Fission.
This is how we treat bacterial infections
What is an antibiotic.
The best treatment or prevention for a virus.
What is a vaccine.
A vaccine gives a person a weakened or dead form of a virus so your body can produce these.
What are antibodies
The sexual way bacteria reproduce and the name of the part that connects the two bacteria
What is conjugation and the pilus
Name three different bacterial infections
Strep throat, chlamydia, gonorrhea, ear infection, sinus infection, e.coli
Viruses are difficult to treat with medications like antibiotics because of what?
They are not living cells and do not have cell structures like bacteria do.
Corona, influenza, flu, chicken pox, HIV
Bacteria can be helpful in many ways. Name three positive uses.
What is production of food, digestion, decomposition, fertilization?