Bacteria
Similarities
Virus
100

True or False: Bacteria are living organisms

True

100

Both bacteria and viruses are ______ in size

Microscopic

100

True or False: Viruses are living organisms

False

200

Bacteria have this many cells

One

200

Eukaryotic cells have this organelle that controls the cell, while bacteria and viruses do not

Nucleus

200

Viruses do not have these protein-making organelles

Ribosomes

300

Bacteria have this structure that links amino acids to create proteins

Ribosomes

300
Both do not have _____ organelles

Membrane-bound

300

The name for something like a virus that has no cells

Acellular

400

This is the portion of the bacteria that facilitates attachment to surfaces

What is the capsule?

400

Both bacteria and viruses can feature a lipid membrane. In the bacteria this is the _________ and in viruses, this is called the ________.

What is the cell membrane and envelope?

400

Viruses can only reproduce by ______

Infecting a host cell

500

This is the name for the double-stranded, closed circular chromosome of bacteria

What is the nucleoid?

500

Both bacteria and viruses have the ability to infect a host, meaning they have this trait

Virulence

500

It is not a virion during this stage of the viral replicative curve

What is the eclipse period?