Any change that affects an organism’s normal function
What is a Disease
Unicellular microorganisms which have cell walls but lack membrane-bound organelles
What are bacteria
Do not contain peptidoglycan
What is Kingdom Archaebacteria
Rod-Shaped bacteria
What is Bacillus
Four conditions that usually apply to bacterial growth
What are moisture, Temperature, pH, and nutrition
What is the main function of the capsule(There are two)
What is either help make the bacteria harder to kill or helps the bacteria resist drying out
We classify viruses based on whether they have
What are DNA or RNA
A Bacteriophage
What is A virus that only affects certain bacteria
Area where DNA is contained in a bacterial cell
What is the nucleoid region
Long threadlike structure that aids in locomotion
What is flagella
Even without seem to be able to move
Binary fission
What is An asexual reproduction that creates two identical daughter cells
A natural process of genetic transfer for bacteria
What is conjugation
Bacteria take up DNA that is free in the environment
What is Transformation
Sports??
Cubs!
The four ways bacteria may obtain energy
What is photosynthetic
Parasitic
Saprophytic
or Chemosynthetic
Unique characteristic of bacterial DNA
What is its circular shape
Difference between a virus and a poison
A poison can not replicate itself inside a host
Why a virus is not considered life(multiple possible answers)
What are, does not use energy(No metabolism)
is not composed of cells
Cannot replicate on its own
cannot move
The envelope of the virus mainly exist to
What is Help the virus attach to a host cell
What does the Gram's stain look for?
What is the amount of peptidoglycan in a bacteria
What is a plasmid?
Smaller sections of DNA which carry a few genes and are not required for survival
The ability of a virus to affect a cell
What is virulence
When a virus appears to be inactive, but is still able to infect cells
What is the lysogenic cycle
Why can one sit with their dog when infected with the flu?
What is, viruses are usually very specific to the organism they can infect. Usually even specific to the cell they can infect as well
Why is it concerning when a virus is able to infect an organism that it normally wouldn't?
What is, the new organism will likely have 0 resistance to it. symptoms are unknown. it will take time to develop a cure