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Ancient History
All About Bacteria
Anything Goes
Gone Viral
I don't feel so good?
100
This man accidentally discovered penicillin in 1928 when mold spores destroyed the bacteria in his samples
Who is Alexander Fleming
100

This disease wiped out 30% - 60% of Europe's population in the 1300s.

What is the Black Plague, Black Death, Bubonic Plague?

100

This is a structure containing a bacterium’s DNA and a small amount of cytoplasm, encased by a tough outer covering that can bring a bacterium back to life when conditions improve is called a

What is an endospore

100
This type of virus infects a bacterium
What is a bacteriophage
100

These WBCs "eat" foreign invaders and debris

What are macrophages?

200

This type of bacteria needs oxygen for respiration.

What are obligate aerobes.

200

What shape would the bacterium Staphylococcus aureus be?

What is cluster (staphylo-); spherical (cocci)

200

The act of boiling milk to kill bacteria is called

What is a pasteurization? 

200

The genetic information that a virus carries can be either

What is DNA or RNA?

200

In this viral life cycle, the virus injects its own DNA into the host cell's chromosome and lies dormant

What is the lysogenic cycle

300

Prokaryotes are unicellular organisms that lack _______ 

What is a nucleus? 

300

Bacteria that need carbon dioxide for respiration are called

What is obligate anaerobes?

300

A fever is an example of _____________ immunity.

What is innate?

300

Making antibodies specific to a pathogen is an example of ____________ immunity.

What is adaptive?
300

These WBCs recognize pathogens they've encountered before

What are memory cells?

400

What kind of bacteria live in marshes, lake sediments, and mammal digestive tracts? Or other harsh environments.

archaebacteria

400

What is the process by which bacteria reproduce asexually? (just making a clone of itself)

What are binary fission?

400
Why do we need to get the flu vaccine every year?
What is the flu virus mutates to a different form of the virus each year
400

These WBCs make antibodies

What are B-Cells?

400
A virus invades a cell and immediately forces the cell to begin making more viruses in the _______ life cycle of a virus
What is lytic
500
These are bacteria that feed off of dead organisms or organic wastes
What are saprophytes
500

How are antibiotics able to destroy bacteria?

What is antibiotics disrupt the formation of bacterial cell walls and other life processes.

500

Most bacteria need ______________ to survive. That's why pasta and cereal can last for months in a cupboard.

What is moisture?

500

This type of vaccine delivers instructions to human cells to make viral surface protein spikes

What are mRNA vaccines?

500

These WBCs identify and kill cells that are infected with virus

What are T-Cells?