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Viruses
Bacteria
Protista
Fungi
Which Type?
100
True or false: Viruses are alive.
What is false?
100
This is the name of the medication that can kill bacteria.
What is an antibiotic?
100
Paramecium are found here.
What is ponds and streams?
100
True or false: It is a good idea to eat mushrooms you find growing in the wild.
What is false?
100
Give an example of a type of virus.
Bacteriophage, HIV, mumps, yellow fever, polio, flu, colds...
200
This is the organism that the virus invades.
What is the host cell?
200
This kind of organism is commonly known as pond scum.
What is cyanobacteria or blue-green algae?
200
This organism causes red tides, killing marine life forms.
What is red algae?
200
This is the gas that yeast releases during respiration.
What is carbon dioxide?
200
These are decomposers, and obtain nutrients from the host on which they live.
What are fungi?
300
This type of virus attacks and destroys bacteria.
What is a bacteriophage?
300
The form of reproduction when one bacterial cell divides to form two bacterial cells.
What is binary fission?
300
This is the way that protozoa are like animals.
What is "they can move around?"
300
This fungus is used to make bread and beer.
What is yeast?
300
A small infectious agent that replicates insides the cells of other organisms.
What is a virus?
400
Viruses inject this into their host cells.
What is genetic material (DNA or RNA)?
400
True or false: Bacteria are the most common type of living thing.
What is true?
400
Dead zones in the ocean are formed by a lack of this.
What is dissolved oxygen?
400
Many fungi reproduce by releasing these.
What are spores?
400
These are prokaryotes, and lack nuclei and membrane-bound organelles.
What are bacteria?
500
This is the scientific name for a type of organism that lives on or in a host and causes harm.
What is a parasite?
500
Bacterial cells lack this common cell component.
What is a nucleus?
500
This type of protozoa lacks a definite shape.
What are amoebas?
500
This is a symbiotic relationship between fungi and green algae.
What is lichen?
500
These are single-celled eukaryotic organisms that are not plants, animals, or fungi.
What are protists?