Viruses
a living thing that provides a source of energy for a virus or an organism
What is a host?
Bacteria are responsible for making this high-protein dairy snack that contains live bacteria.
What is yogurt?
Illnesses that spread from one organism to another.
What are infectious diseases?
The property of bacteria that relates to its number of cells
What is unicellular?
Bacteria can be described as this because the genetic material in their cells is NOT contained in a nucleus.
What are prokaryotes?
Enters cells and immediately begins to multiply.
What is an active virus?
The two kingdoms of bacteria.
What is Eubacteria and Archaebacteria?
Using a drinking cup after your sick sibling is an example of which way infectious diseases spread?
What is contact with a contaminated object?
This structure surrounds bacteria cells at the outermost part; provides structural support.
What is the cell wall?
What is an autotroph?
A virus that infects bacteria
What is a bacteriophage?
The three shapes of bacteria cells.
What is spherical, rod-like, and spiral-shaped
The disease passed by the bite of an infected raccoon that requires treatment.
What is Rabies?
The part of some bacteria that extends from the cell, aiding in movement.
What is the flagellum?
The form of asexual reproduction in bacteria in which one cell divides into two.
What is binary fission?
The two basic parts of a virus.
What are the outer protein coat and inner genetic material?
Bacteria that can break down large chemicals in dead organisms into small chemicals.
What are decomposers?
Antibiotics can only cure these kinds of infections.
What are bacterial infections?
The chemical factories where proteins are produced.
What are ribosomes?
The sexual reproduction of bacteria involving the transfer of genetic material through a thin, threadlike bridge that joins the two cells.
What is conjugation?
The part of a virus that makes the initial connection with the host cell.
What is a protein (spike)?
Bacteria can preserve their genetic material in this small resting cell when threatened by unfavorable environments.
What is an endospore?
Because of this, tuberculosis cases have been on the rise despite the use of antibiotics.
What is antibiotic resistance?
The bacteria that cause strep throat are this shape.
(Hint: Streptococcus)
What is spherical?
The process of breaking down food to release its energy.
What is respiration?