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Bacteria
Miscellaneous
100
This name comes from the Latin for poison.
What is virus?
100
This virus causes bumps on the skin and it was the first to have a vaccine.
What is smallpox?
100
The shorter cycle for virus replication.
What is the lytic cycle?
100
These live in extreme environments like hot springs and underwater vents.
What are the archaebacteria?
100
HIV is this type of virus.
What is a retrovirus?
200
A virus needs this to replicate.
What is the host?
200
In 1769, he developed the first vaccine.
Who is (Edward) Jennar?
200
This is the method of bacterial replication.
What is binary fission?
200
These make their own food.
What are autotrophs?
200
Bacteria has this in its cell wall.
What is peptidoglycan?
300
This is the unit that viruses are measured in.
What are micrometers?
300
This is a solution of a dead or weakened pathogen.
What is a vaccine?
300
Viruses can be spherical, rod, or this shaped.
What is spiral?
300
Prokaryotes are have three important roles as decomposers, nitrogen fixer, and this.
What is a producer.
300
The transfer of DNA from one prokaryote to another in replication.
What is conjugation?
400
This is on the outside of all viruses.
What is a protein covering?
400
These cause the mis-folding of proteins and are the cause of diseases like Mad Cow and Creutzfield-Jacob Disease.
What are prions?
400
This type of virus infects bacteria.
What is a bacteriophage?
400
This is how bacteria move around.
What is a flagellum?
400
The key DNA sequences in this domain are more closely related to eukaryotes than their "sister" domain.
What is Archaea?
500
These are the genetic information in viruses.
What is DNA or RNA?
500
This kingdom of bacteria do NOT make you sick.
What are the archaea?
500
The first step in virus replication.
What is adsorption?
500
When growth conditions become unfavorable, prokaryotic cells will grow this.
What is an endospore?
500
This is an example of a zoonotic disease (one that can transmit from other animals to humans) that first appeared in the Congo in the 1930s.
What is HIV?