Virus Facts
Viruses are ______
Ranging in size from 17nm to 300nm
What is small?
A single virus replicates when it enters a host _____
What is cell?
Bacteria can thrive in many different __________
What are environments?
Bacteria who get their food from dead plants and animals
What are decomposers?
Live bacteria that are good for you such as the ones you find in yogurt
What are probiotics?
Virus particles can remain this for years outside a living cell
What is dormant?
A virus injects this into the nucleus of the cell.
What is its DNA or RNA?
Bacteria are ______________ organisms without a nucleus; Prokaryotes
What are unicellular?
Bacteria who make their own food
What are autotrophs?
A disease-causing organism
What is a pathogen?
Virus only do this inside living bacteria, animal, or plant cells
What is grow or multiply?
The system in your body that helps to destroy the viruses now moving throughout your body
What is the immune system?
Bacteria have a protective cell wall and contain this jellylike substance that contains enzymes
What is cytoplasm?
Bacteria who get their food from an outside source
What are heterotrophs?
A type of antimicrobial substance active against bacteria and is the most important type of agent for fighting bacterial infections.
What is an antibiotic?
Viruses lack this which is present inside living cells
What is a complex structure?
A great way to try and prevent getting a virus is to have a shot commonly known as this
What is a vaccine?
Bacteria can exist as individual cells, in pairs (diplo), in clusters (staphlo), or like this known as strepto
What are chains?
Bacteria reproduce ____________
What is asexually?
The process of heating liquids to kill harmful bacteria
What is pasteurization?
Their DNA or RNA is inclosed in a shell of this
What is protein?
This is what the hijacked nucleus of the cell instructs the rest of the cell to do
What is make new viruses or virus parts?
One other shape that Bacteria can take other than round (Coccus)
What are rod (Bacillus), comma (Vibrio), or spiral (Spirillum/Spirochete)?
The two ways that bacteria can reproduce
What is binary fission and budding?
Chemicals added to foods to slow down the growth of bacteria
What are preservatives?