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Bacteria Structure
More Microbes, Please
Bacteria Potpourri
Diseases
100
This is the ability of a virus to affect a cell
What is virulence?
100
The round shape of bacteria
What is coccus?
100
Binary fission
What is the main way bacteria reproduce?
100
Rod-shaped bacteria
What is bacillus?
100
We think these cause "mad cow disease"
What are prions?
200
It is a protein that defends the body against pathogens and toxins
What is an antibody?
200
This chemical is found only in the walls of bacteria
What is peptidoglycan?
200
When viruses reproduce this way, you get sick very quickly (e.g. flu, polio)
What is the lytic cycle?
200
Bacteria that eat only dead material
What are saprophytic bacteria?
200
The first vaccine was for this disease
What is smallpox?
300
It is any disease-producing agent
What is a pathogen?
300
These are short hair-like projections that help bacteria move
What are cilia?
300
This form of virus reproduction comes and goes in cycles, like cold sores
What is the lysogenic cycle?
300
Cheese, yogurt, antibiotics, sauerkraut, chocolate
What are uses of bacteria?
300
Your fingers and toes grow numb and your muscles deteriorate in this disease
What is leprosy?
400
It is an insect that carries a pathogen.
What is a vector?
400
This prefix tells you that a bacteria colony is in long chains
What is Strep- ?
400
Bacteria become these when conditions are not good for reproduction
What are endospores?
400
Bacteria that feed off a living host
What are parasitic bacteria?
400
This viral disease affects both animals and humans
What is rabies?
500
It is a special cell in the body that engulfs and digests pathogens.
What is a phagocyte?
500
This prefix tell you a colony of bacteria is in groups of two
What is Diplo- ?
500
Two ways bacteria can transfer genetic information
What are conjugation and transformation?
500
Bacteria that cause botulism and salmonella
What is food poisoning?
500
Mary Mallon carried this disease, but showed no symptoms
What is typhoid fever?