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LIFE OF A BACTERIUM
INFECTION!!
NAME THAT PART
TERMS
CLASSIFICATION SYSTEM
100
Name of exterior whip-like structure used for movement
What is a FLAGELLUM/FLAGELLA?
100
A disease-causing agent
What is a PATHOGEN?
100
Cell organelle in eukaryotic cells that contains the DNA
What is the NUCLEUS?
100
Name of single-celled organisms that lack a nucleus
What is PROKARYOTES?
100
Broadest category in the classification system
What is DOMAIN?
200
Name of a spiral shaped bacteria
What is SPIRILLA?
200
Meaning of "lyse"
What is "TO BURST"?
200
Hollow, tube-like structures used by bacteria in sexual reproduction
What are PILI?
200
term for rod-shaped bacterium
What is BACILLUS?
200
Most "specific" classification in the classification system
What is SPECIES?
300
Biological term for asexual reproducion
What is BINARY FISSION?
300
Viral infection by which a host cell unknowingly builds & assembles new viruses until the viruses burst the cell open
What is the LYTIC CYCLE?
300
Protein coating of a virus
What is a CAPSID?
300
Term for spherical-shaped bacteria
What is COCCI?
300
Classification that is between ORDER and GENUS
What is FAMILY ?
400
Term for sexual reproduction
What is CONJUGATION?
400
Type of infection that ANTIBIOTICS are effective against
What is BACTERIAL infections?
400
Two types of nucleic acid found in viruses
What is RNA & DNA ?
400
Type of PROKARYOTE that are "EXTREMOPHILES"
What is ARCHAEA or ARCHEBACTERIA?
400
Eukarya, Archaea, Bacteria
What are the 3 DOMAINS?
500
Part of a bacterium that an ANTIBIOTIC destroys
What is its CELL WALL?
500
Cycle of infection used by a LATENT VIRUS
What is the LYSOGENIC CYCLE?
500
DNA of a virus that attaches itself to its host's DNA
What is a PROPHAGE?
500
Literally means "a chain of spheres"
What is STREPTOCOCCUS?
500
The 2 levels of the classification system used for the scientific name of an organism (ex: Ursus maritimus)
What is Genus & species?