Characteristics of Bacteria
The name for the outside of a bacteria.
What is cell wall or cell membrane
What important element does bacteria help fix for plants?
Nitrogen
What gas is produced in the anaerobic process when you make root beer or carbonated beverages?
What is carbondioxide
Which is larger -- bacteria or viruses?
What is bacteria?
Causes chicken pox or influenza.
What is a virus?
The scientific name for round bacteria.
What is cocci?
How is E. coli helpful to humans?
It lives in the gut and helps absorption of nutrients.
What type of bacteria live in extreme environments?
What is archaebacteria
Flu infections you have had in the past usually do NOT result in immunity (in other words...you need a vaccine from year to year). Why is this?
Because viruses mutate quickly!
Triggers the production of antibodies.
What are vaccines?
The part of a bacteria that allows it to move.
What is a flagella?
This helpful bacteria exists in cows (not humans) that helps them break down ____________ found in plants
What is Cellulose?
A disease caused by bacteria that affects the throat
Hint: Common among kids and usually seen in schools every year.
What is Strep throat
The name for the step in the virus development cycle when the cell bursts open and releases the viruses inside.
What is lysis?
Can a virus reproduce on its own?
NO! it needs a host cell.
Three ways in which bacteria enter your body.
What is through the air you breath, through the food you eat, and through a cut?
True or False.. Bacteria can reproduce through asexual or sexual reproduction
What is True
A drug that kills bacteria.
What are antibiotics?
This is what a virus needs to carry on its functions and survive.
What is an organism OR host cell?
These have become resistant to antibiotics.
What are "super bacteria"? (Don't forget that antibiotics do not kill viruses, only bacteria.)
list two ways in which bacteria obtain food.
What is is: 1-using light energy (phototrophs) to make its own food; 2-using chemical energy (chemotrophs) to make its own food and 3- (heterotrophs) eating things like milk, meat, decaying leaves, etc. ?
The type of virus that infects a bacteria.
What is a bacteriophage?
Scientists suggest that viruses are NOT living because. . .
viruses can't reproduce on their own to survive (they need a host cell).
True of false... A virus can not infect plants.
False A virus can infect plants
The genetic material that makes up viruses.
What are strands of DNA OR RNA? (NOT both in the same cell.)