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Virus, Bacteria, or Fungi?
Random Science Questions
100

These are used to prevent viral infections

What are vaccines?

100

Bacteria are classified as this because they do not have a membrane-bound nucleus.

What is prokaryotic?

100

Fungi are classified as this because they have a nucleus and organelles?

What is eukaryotic?

100

The color of a polar bear's skin.

What is black?

100

The cause of most food poisonings, such as E.coli and Salmonella

bacteria

100

The largest planet in our solar system.

What is Jupiter?

200

True or False.  Viruses can be helpful or harmful.

False

200

Bacteria move with these.

What is a flagella?

200

What term describes fungi since they eat dead or decaying material?

What is decomposer?

200

Honeybees communicate the location of food to their hive mates this way.

What is by dancing?

200

black mold, penicillin and yeast are all examples of

fungi

200

The number of colors in the rainbow

What is seven?

300

What is a vaccination made of?

A weakened or dead portion of the virus.

300

What is used to treat bacteria infections?

Antibiotics

300

Fungi must get energy from decaying matter because, unlike plants, they cannot...

What is get energy from the sun or photosynthesis?

300

A group of crows is called a...

What is murder?

300

The only microbe that is not a cell

virus

300

The country that has the most tornadoes

What is the US?

400

What is something viruses and bacteria have in common?

Both are microorganisms.

Both can cause infections.

Both can be transmitted (caught by someone else).

400

The three shapes of bacteria

What are rod-shaped (bacilli), spiral-shaped (spirula) and spherical (cocci)?

400

A way that fungi can be harmful is...

What is by causing infections?

400

This bird has the largest eyes of any land animal.

What is an ostrich?

400

Their shapes help them attach to specific host cells.

What is virus?

400

The number of bones that sharks have

What is zero?

500

List three examples of viral infections.

Answers could include: influenza, COVID-19, Norovirus, Rabies, Rotavirus, RSV, Polio, etc.

500

This happens when bacteria are not killed, and they continue to grow due to overuse or misuse of antibiotics.

antibiotic resistance

500

This antibiotic is made from fungus.

What is penicillin?

500

An octopus has this many hearts.

What is 3?

500

These do not have a specific habitat, but are parasites.

What are viruses?

500

A Geiger Counter measures...

What is radiation?