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Bacteria and Virus Review
S.H.S.-Learning Lab
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Biology
9th Grade
02/09/2012

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All viruses are?
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Nonliving
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Can a cold be cured with antibiotics?
Definition
No, because it is nonliving.
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What 3 places are bacteria used?
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Farming, medicines, and food
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Where are viruses found?
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air, water, soil
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What are viruses?
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decomposers
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What is a characteristic of a prokaryotic cell?
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absence of a membrane bound nucleus
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Most viruses have the structural arrangement of what?
Definition
caspid surrounding a nucleic acid sequence
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A bacterial pathogen invading your body does what?
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breaks down body tissue as food
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How does a virus recognize its host?
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A protein on the surface of a virus has a shape that matches a molecule...(lock & key)
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Some bacteria, when faced with unfavorable environmental conditions, produce structrues called what?
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endospores
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genetic material of a virus
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DNA or RNA
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asexual reproduction of bacteria
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binary fision
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a cell in which a virus replicates
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host cell
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sexual reproduction process of bacteria
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conjugation
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found in extreme environments
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archeabacteria
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viral reproductive cycle where a provirus is replicated with the host cell's chromosome.
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lysogenic
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reproductive cycle of viruses where viral genes are expressed immediately after the virus infects the host cell.
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lytic
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RNA virus that uses an enzyme to transcrive RNA into DNA
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retrovirus
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when viral DNA is integrated into the host cell's chromosomes
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provirus
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[image]
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Bacilli
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[image]
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Cocci
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[image]
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Staph...clusters
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[image]
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Strep...chains
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[image]
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diplo.....pairs
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What ways does bacteria damage the body?
Definition
destruction of tissue and produces toxins
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What is used to kill bacteria?
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Antibiotics
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