Viruses
Are viruses living or non-living?
What is NON-LIVING?
Contrast the size of bacteria to the size of a virus.
What is viruses are much smaller than bacteria?
Athlete's foot is an example of a disease caused by this.
What is fungi?
These are the four main ways that diseases can be spread.
What is 1) direct or indirect contact with an infected person, 2) contact with an infected animal, 3) contact with a contaminated object, or 4) from environmental sources.
This is an organism that helps to transmit and infectious disease.
What is a carrier or vector?
The reason why we consider viruses to be non-living.
What is viruses cannot reproduce on their own?
This is used to treat most bacterial infections.
What is an antibiotic?
Malaria is a common example of a disease caused by this.
What is a parasite?
This is when a large, unexpected number of people in one country or region become infected with a disease.
What is an epidemic?
This is a virus that causes a disease.
What is a pathogenic virus?
The reason antibiotics cannot kill viruses.
What is antibiotics only work against living cells?
This is the process of asexual reproduction for bacteria.
What is binary fission?
Fungi use these to reproduce.
What are spores?
This is when an infectious disease infects a significant number of the population around the world.
What is a pandemic?
This is the name of the cell in which a virus reproduces.
What is a host cell?
You have a cold, but your doctor will not give you an antibiotic. This is the reason.
What is antibiotics are only prescribed for bacterial infections; you must have a virus?
Give two examples of reasons why antibiotics are no longer as effective against bacterial infections.
What is 1)humans are over-prescribed antibiotics, even for viral infections; 2) humans stop taking medication as soon as they start to feel better; 3) farmers are using antibiotics on ALL animals to prevent infection to the herd; 4) overuse of anti-bacterial hand-soaps and cleaners?
Explain the relationship between parasite and host.
What is the parasite lives on or inside the host, taking essential nutrients from the host while providing it harm?
This is one of the most destructive examples of a pandemic in recorded history.
What is the HIV/AIDS outbreak?
This is a specific type of virus that infects bacteria.
What is a bacteriophage?
Explain how vaccines work.
What are weakened versions of a virus that allow your body to create an immune system response?
Bacteria can play this very important role in the food chain. Give the name and an explanation of what they do.
You could say either one!
A1) What is producers who go through the process of photosynthesis to create food?
A2) What is decomposers who break down dead organisms or other matter to return the nutrients to the soil?
What is under harsh conditions to allow genetic variability and potential for adaptions that allow offspring to better survive in those conditions?
Currently, what is the best way to prevent a viral pandemic?
What is the use of vaccines?
These three vocabulary words describes the different shapes of bacteria cells.
What is spirilla, cocci, or bacilli?