Viruses
Are viruses living or non-living?
non-living
What medication treats bacterial infections but not viral infections?
Antibiotics
Bacteria with this official shape have a spiral shape.
Spirillum, spirillus, spirilla
What do antibodies do?
Help fight off infections that you have already been exposed to.
Which type of prokaryote requires oxygen for metabolism?
obligate aerobe
Viruses need this in order to replicate.
A living host cell
What is the name of the process where two bacteria cells form a hollow bridge between each other to transfer genetic material in the form of plasmids?
Conjugation
Bacteria with this official shape have a spherical shape.
Coccus, cocci
What is a vaccine?
Preparation of weakened or killed pathogens.
What process do prokaryotes use to reproduce asexually?
Binary Fission
What are the two infection cycles that viruses can undergo?
Lytic and Lysogenic
List 2 functions of the cell wall in a bacteria cell.
protection and holds cell's shape
Bacteria with this official shape have a rod-like shape.
Bacillus, bacilli
What antibiotic was derived from a mold by accident in the 1940s?
Penicillin
What do prokaryotes lack that eukaryotes have?
a nucleus
What are viruses that infect bacteria called?
Bacteriophages
In the cytoplasm
What is the surrounding protein coating of a virus?
Capsid
What is an example of an RNA virus?
What is an obligate anaerobe?
They can only live without oxygen
Viruses that contain RNA as their genetic information are known as what?
Retrovirus
Prokaryotes belong to both domain Archaea or domain ______.
Bacteria
What 3 things are a virus made of?
Proteins, nucleic acids, and sometimes lipids
What organ is affected by hepatitis?
the liver
Endospore