Viruses
A viruses that infects bacteria.
What is a bacteriophage?
The three basic shapes of bacteria.
What are cocci, spirilla, and baccilli?
Some protists use this tail-like structure for mobility.
What is a flagellum?
The primary carbohydrate found in the cell walls of fungi.
What is chitin?
The creator of the first system for classification.
Who is Carl Linnaeus?
The protein coat of a virus.
What is a capsid?
The disease caused by Clostridium tetani.
What is tetanus?
Animal-like protist are known as this.
What are protozoans?
An example of a common unicellular fungi that reproduces through mitosis.
What is yeast?
The three domains in the modern classification system.
What are Archaea, Bacteria, and Eukarya?
The virus attaches to the surface of a bacterium, injects genetic material, takes over cells functions, produces proteins, and destroys the cell.
What is a lytic infection?
Bacteria that capture sunlight for energy, but feed on organic compounds for nutrition.
What are photoheterotrophs?
In protists, the process increases genetic diversity.
What is conjugation?
The symbiotic relationship between fungi and plants that extend the surface area of roots.
What is mycorrhizae?
The kingdom that all bacteria were formerly grouped under.
What is Monera?
The first vaccine was invented for this viral disease.
What is smallpox?
Prokaryotic cells reproduce by this method.
What is binary fission?
Plasmodium causes this famous disease using mosquitoes as a vector.
What is malaria?
A symbiotic relationship between a fungus and a green alga or a cyanobacterium
What is lichen?
In binomial nomenclature, this part of the name is always capitalized.
What is the Genus?
The virus embedded into the host cell's genome is called this.
What is the prophage?
A gram negative stain will show up as this color under a microscope.
What is red?
African sleeping sickness is caused by this protist.
What is Trypanosoma?
The process of alternating between haploid and diploid phases.
What is alternation of generations?
The Linnean Classification system in order from the largest to smallest taxa.
What is Kingdom, Phylum, Class, Order, Family, Genus, Species?