Prokaryotic Structures
Protist/Protozoa
Fungi
Helminths
Viruses
100
This component of the bacterial cell wall is never found in other types of organisms
What is peptidoglycan?
100
The motile feeding stage requiring ample food and moisture to stay active.
What are trophozoites?
100
The main component of the fungal cell wall.
What is chitin?
100
Adult worms that mate and reproduce are characteristic of this host.
What is the definitive (final) host?
100
This is the protein part of a virus.
What is the capsid?
200
The movement of bacteria in response to chemical signals.
What is chemotaxis?
200
This feature in many protists help them survive harsh conditions.
What is a cyst?
200
How this organism gets its food.
What is absorption after secreting enzymes?
200
Pinworms (Enterobius vermicularis) with round, unsegmented bodies are typical of this type of helminth.
What are roundworms/Aschelminthes?
200
This is the type of nucleic acid found in a viral genome.
What is DNA or RNA (but never both)?
300
This Gram negative feature qualifies as an endotoxin
What is Lipid A of lipopolysaccharide (LPS)?
300
This group of non-motile protists (protists) incudes species such as Plasmodium falciparum that causes malaria.
What are apicomplexans?
300
This structure is easily dispersed for reproduction by fungi.
What are spores?
300
These helminths have thin, often segmented bodies.
What are flatworms (flukes and tapeworms/Trematodes and Cestodes)?
300
This structure allows the specific interaction between a virus and its host cell.
What is a spike protein?
400
This structure found in prokaryotes and eukaryotes differs in size (measured Svedberg units).
What is ribosome?
400
Naegleria fowlerii which uses pseudopodia is this type of protists/ protozoa.
What are amoebae?
400
The term for fungi with both a hyphae and yeast form
What is dimorphic?
400
These are considered the best ways to limit helminth infections.
What are having clean water and food supplies and washing hands.
400
Retroviruses use reverse transcriptase to make this.
What is a DNA copy of an RNA genome?
500
The name for multiple flagella that remain in the periplasmic space provide motility for spirochetes.
What is axial filament?
500
Trypanosomes that are transmitted by biting flies and causes diseases like African sleeping sickness are this type of protist.
What are flagellates?
500
This feature of Apergillus fumigatus poses a risk of illness from ingestion.
What are secreted toxins contaminating food?
500
This number of helminth species is known to cause human infections.
What is 50?
500
This happens when bacteria acquire a new trait from temperate phage.
What is lysogenic conversion?