Bacteria
Viruses
Terms
Understanding Concepts
100
Bacteria lack this.

What is nuclei? 

100

Not made up of cells; some scientists consider them nonliving. 

What is viruses?

100

Plasmid 

What is a small, often circular strand of DNA that is separate from the main chromosomes in some bacteria. 

100

Some bacteria have a small circular strand of DNA separate from their main chromosomes called an _____.

What is a plasmid?
200

How does bacteria reproduce?

By binary fission and endospores. 

200

A two ways a virus can be in your body 

What is active or latent?

200

A form of bacterial reproduction in which the DNA is replicated and the cell membrane pinches together to form two-identical bacteria. 

What is binary fission?
200

What is the purpose of bacteruim‘s flagellum?

What is that it uses it‘s flagellum to move?

300

TRUE OR FALSE:

All bacteria is bad

What is false?

300

A virus consist of these two things.

What is a protein coat and nucleic acid?

300

A Virus 

What is a nucleic acid surrounded by a protein coat that uses other cells to reproduce?

300

What are the two groups of prokaryotes?

What is bacteria and archaea?

400

TRUE OR FALSE:

Bacteria can cause diseases

What is true?

400
The kind of virus that injects into the nucleic acid of a cell. The virus will use the cell to produce more until the cell bursts. 

What is an active virus?

400

A protein coat that surrounds the nucleic acid of a virus. 

What is a capsid?

400

What do viruses have instead if a nucleus?

What is nucleic acid?

500

Three things bacteria promote.

What is good health, create usable forms of nitrogen for plants, decompose wastes, and help create foods?

500

When viruses remain inside the cell for a period of time before manifesting symptoms. 

What is latent virus?

500

A process in which one bacterium shares a plasmid with another.

What is a conjugation?

500

What occurs when a cold sore erupts in the same place where another cold sore occurred three years before?

A latent virus have become active.