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3 Domains and such
Prokaryotes
Eukaryotes
Virus
100
The study of small living organisms.
What is Microbiology?
100
The three domains
What is Archaea, Bacteria, Eucaryota
100
The most common prokaryotic example
What is bacteria?
100
These cells, unlike prokaryotes, have a "true" nucleus
What is a eukaryote?
100
This protein coat surrounds the genetic material of a virus
What is the capsid?
200
A microbe that causes disease in a plant or animal host.
What is a pathogen?
200
This domain is considered to be "eubacteria" or "true bacteria"
What is the Bacteria domain?
200
This bacteria causes Antrax
What is Bacillus anthracis?
200
This protozoa causes Malaria
What is a plasmodium?
200
This is the name for the spike on the envelope that helps the virus recognize the receptor on a host cell that it can infect
What is a glycoprotein?
300
The study of viruses
What is Virology?
300
This domain include methanophiles and extremophiles
What is Archaea?
300
This is the name of a rod-shaped bacteria
What is Bacillus?
300
This eukaryotic microbe causes the opportunistic infection "thrush"
What is fungi? Specifically Candida
300
This virus only infects bacteria
What a bacteriophage?
400
Any agent that carries and transmits an infectious agent.
What is a vector?
400
This domain includes fungi, plants and animals
What is Eucaryota?
400
The two types of bacteria
What are Gram + and Gram -?
400
Cyst and trophozoite are part of the _____________ life cycle
What is the protozoan life cycle?
400
The part of viral replication in which the virus reproduces, assembles new viruses, and releases the new viruses killing the host cell.
What is the lytic cycle?
500
The study of fungi.
What is Mycology?
500
This domain contains no known pathogens
What is Archaea?
500
This bacteria common causes food poisoning or UTIs
What is E. coli
500
Worms that cause infectious disease (such as hookworms)
What are Helminths?
500
This part of the viral replication cycle involves an indefinitely long dormancy phase.
What is the lysogenic cycle?