What is a single cell organism that lacks a nucleus and membrane-bound organelles
100
Identify the shapes of bacilli, cocci, and spirilla.
What is rod-shaped, spherical, and spiral-shaped
100
Identify the two shapes of viruses.
What are poly-hedral (many sided) and helical (rod-shaped)
100
What does virus mean in latin?
What is poison
200
What are flagella?
What is a whip-like structure that propels the prokaryote forward
200
What is the protein coat that surrounds and protects the genetic material of a virus?
What is a capsid
200
**DAILY DOUBLE** Name the largest kingdom of the prokaryotes.
What is Eubacteria (true bacteria)
200
Viruses are not considered living because:
a) they have no tail sheath
b) have no genetic material
c) cannot reproduce unless inside a host cell
d) do not have a nucleus/membrane-bound organelles
What is C: cannot reproduce unless inside a host cell
200
Name one way a virus can be treated.
What is with sleep, fluids, or vitamin C
300
Describe nitrogen fixation.
What is the process of converting nitrogen gas into a form plants can use
300
What is a prophage?
What is the viral DNA that is embedded in the host cell's DNA
300
Name the type of bacteria that must live in the absence of oxygen.
What is obligate anaerobe
300
Explain the basic structure of a virus.
What is DNA or RNA surrounded by a protein coat
300
**DAILY DOUBLE** Viruses were officially understood by which scientist in 1935?
Who is Wendall Stanley
400
**DAILY DOUBLE** Name the bacteria that lives in extremely salty environments.
What are halophiles
400
What are retroviruses?
What is a virus that contains RNA as their genetic information
What is: chicken pox, hepatitis, flu, colds, polio, warts, mono, measles, rabies, mumps
400
Louis Pasteur developed which theory?
What is the Germ theory
500
Describe the difference between chemoautotrophs and photoheterotrophs.
What is
Chemoautotrophs:do not require light, use energy from chemical reactions
Photoheterotrophs: uses sunlight for energy, but takes in inorganic compounds from other sources
500
Describe the difference between chemoheterotrophs and photoautotrophs.
What is
Chemoheterotrophs: obtain energy from sunlight and other carbon source
Photoautotrophs: uses light energy to convert CO2 and H20 to carbon compounds and oxygen
500
Name the three ways bacteria reproduce and explain each.
What is
Binary Fission: replicates DNA and divides itself in half
Conjugation: bridge is formed between two bacteria, genetic information is exchanged
Spore Formation: bacteria forms endospore- when conditions are favorable it reproduces
500
Name the 5 stages of the lytic cycle.
What is: Absorption, Entry, Replication, Assembly, Release