Bacteria
What are the 3 most common shapes of bacteria?
Bacilli, Cocci, and Spirilla
______ used to clean up industrial, agricultural, and municipal wastes.
Bioremediation
What is the one function that viruses share with living things?
They reproduce.
Prokaryotes do NOT
have nuclei
____ is a microscopic particle that gets inside a cell and often destroys the cell.
Virus
______ are rod shaped. They have a large surface area, which helps them take in nutrients. But a large surface area can cause them to dry out easily.
Bacilli
_____ is reproduction in which one single-celled organism splits into two single-celled organisms.
Binary Fission
Can viruses live on their own? Yes or no?
NO
______ is a substance needed by the body to properly use sugars and other carbohydrates.
Insulin
_____ is an organism from which a parasite takes food or shelter.
______ are long and spiral shaped. They use flagella at both ends to move like a corkscrew.
Spirilla
What happens to the host cell in the lytic cycle?
The host cell is destroyed.
within a host cell
__________ is the process by which nitrogen gas in the air is transformed into a form that plants can use.
Nitrogen-fixation
_____ are medicines used to kill bacteria and other microorganisms.
Antibiotics
______ are spherical. They do not dry out as quickly as rod-shaped bacteria.
Cocci
When the host cell divides during ____, each new cell carries the genetic material of the virus.
the lysogenic cycle
Viruses are not considered to be living because they do not ______, ______, and _____.
eat, grow, and breathe.
People who have diabetes cannot produce the ___ they need.
Insulin
____ contains genetic material and proteins and is covered by a thick, protective coat.
endospore
Some bacteria have hairlike structures called ______ that help them move around.
flagella
What cycle is it when a virus attacks living cells and turns them into virus factories?
The lytic cycle
Every virus is basically some form of genetic material enclosed in _______.
a protein coat
What are the 3 main types of archaebacteria?
methane makers, heat lovers, and salt lovers.
____ are bacteria that cause disease.
Pathogenic bacteria