Most antibiotics inhibit the synthesis of proteins that produce this cell organelle.
What is the cell wall?
100
Weakened pathogens that are purposely given to an individual to elicit an immune response.
What is a vaccine?
100
A rapid outbreak of an infection that affects many people.
What is an epidemic?
200
A virus that infects bacteria.
What is a bacteriophage?
200
This type of bacteria helps break down food in humans.
What is E. Coli.
200
Starting in 1941, this was the first antibiotic mass produced.
What is penicillin?
200
This type of pathogen causes AIDS and the flu.
What is a virus?
200
Cells, reproduction & development, need for energy, and responds to the environment.
What is a living thing?
300
The method by which viruses enter a cell through membrane bound sacs.
What is endocytosis?
300
This type of cell wall stains dark purple because of all the peptidoglycan.
What is gram +.
300
Penicillin is made from colonies of this type of microorganism.
What is mold?
300
This pathogen causes diseases in plants.
What is a viroid?
300
These are produced in the body during an immune response to protect against future pathogens.
What is an antibody?
400
The process of a virus invading a host and inserting the viral DNA into the host's DNA.
What is a lysogenic infection?
400
This type of bacteria is poisoned by oxygen.
What is an obligate anaerobe?
400
The amount of time antibiotics have increased the average life expectancy of every person worldwide.
What is 10 years.
400
This small pathogen always causes fatal brain damage in the host because the immune system doesn't recognize it to be harmful.
What is a prion?
400
Overuse of an antibiotic can cause "more harm then good" because of this.
What is antibiotic resistance?
500
A virus that contains RNA and uses an enzyme called reverse transcriptase to make a DNA copy.
What is a retrovirus?
500
The process of using ba cteria to help clean the environment.
What is bioremediation.
500
The man who made ground-breaking discoveries in the world of microbiology. He lost 4 daughters to disease, and his experiments supported the "germ theory of disease" which said that diseases are caused from microorganisms.
Who is Louis Pasteur?
500
A host cell is broken apart so new viral particles can be released.
What is a lytic infection?
500
A small piece of genetic material that can replicate separately from a prokaryote's main chromosome.