Bacteria I
Rod-shaped bacteria
What are bacilli?
Viruses are composed of a core of either ____ or ____.
What is DNA or RNA?
Testing method used to classify bacteria into 2 large groups.
What is gram staining?
Viruses can either be active or _____.
What is latent?
These whip-like structures help bacteria move.
What are flagella?
Spherical bacteria
What are cocci?
The outer coating of a virus is called a ____.
What is the capsid?
Gram staining tests the physical and chemical properties of ?
What is the bacteria cell wall?
This is the type of virus that infects bacteria.
What is a bacteriophage?
Bacteria that must have oxygen to survive.
What is aerobic?
What are spirilla?
True or False? Viruses are larger than bacteria.
What is FALSE?
Gram positive bacteria stain this color.
What is crystal violet?
This type of virus infects a host cell and replicates repeatedly until the host cell bursts.
What is a lytic infection?
Bacteria that make their own food are called ?
What are autotrophs?
Thick covering around the cell wall of some bacteria
What is the capsule?
Which virus is shaped like a robot?
What is a bacteriophage?
Gram negative bacteria stain this color.
What is a pink/red color?
This type of virus infects a host cell and makes the host cell replicate its DNA along with the host cell DNA.
What is a lysogenic infection?
Bacteria that don't require oxygen to survive
What are anaerobic?
Hairlike structures that help bacterias stick to surfaces and also act like grappling hooks.
What are pili?
Viruses cannot replicated unless they are inside a ____.
What is a host cell?
This presence or absence of this substance determines the color of the gram stain.
What is peptidoglycan?
This type of virus has RNA instead of DNA as its genetic material.
What is a retrovirus?
What is bacteria?