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Viruses
Bacteria Structure
Reproduction, Nutrition & Genetic Exchange
Beneficial vs. Pathogenic Bacteria
Virus or Bacteria
100
The protein coat surrounding viral nucleic acid
What is a capsid?
100
Bacteria are the only group characterized as this type of cell.
What is a prokarote?
100
Bacteria reproduce through this asexual process.
What is binary fission.
100
Bacteria attack our cells by releasing ________ into our healthy cells.
What is toxin?
100
rod-shaped bacteria
What are bacilli?
200
Viral replication requires a _________.
What is host?
200
The circular DNA in bacterial cell
What is plasmid?
200
The process where genetic material is transferred from one bacteria to another through contact.
What is conjugation?
200
This is when antibiotics become ineffective against fighting a bacterial infection.
What is antibiotic resistance?
200
Strepto
What is filament or chain?
300
Viruses that remain dormant for a while before replicating and damaging the host cell replicate through this cycle.
What is the lysogenic cycle?
300
Bacterial structure which helps bacteria to attach to a surface or in reproduction
What are pili?
300
Bacteria will form one of these to avoid harsh conditions.
What is an endospore?
300
List two beneficial roles of bacteria.
What are decomposers, make food and medicine, recycle nutrients, fix nitrogen, help animals break down food?
300
Round bacteria
What is coccus?
400
Infectious protein particles that infect the nervous system and result in diseases such as mad cow and scrapie.
What are prions?
400
Found in cell wall of bacteria, but not in archae
What is peptidoglycan?
400
Type of bacteria that cannot live in oxygen.
What is obligate anaerobe?
400
Difference between a vehicle and a vector.
What is vehicle is nonliving and vector is living?
400
Virus that infects bacteria
What is bacteriophage?
500
The type of enzyme used by retroviruses to make DNA from RNA.
What is reverse transcriptase?
500
Outer protein layer
What is capsule?
500
Two ways autotrophic bacteria make their food.
What are photosynthesis and chemosynthesis?
500
List three ways of controlling bacterial growth.
What are antibiotic, refrigeration, freezing, dehydration, antiseptic.
500
List the five stages of viral replication.
What are attachment, entry, replication, assembly, release and lysis?