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Unit 6 Biology
Unit 6 Vocabulary Words
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Biology
9th Grade
06/06/2013

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Virus
Definition
An infection or disease caused by another.
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Host Cells
Definition
The cell that viruses grow and multiply in.
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Bacteriophage
Definition
Is a virus that infects and replicates within bacteria.
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Capsid
Definition
Is the protective protein coat that surrounds a virus.
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Lytic Cycle
Definition
is one of the two cycles of the viral reproduction, the other being lysognectic cycle.
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Lysogenic cycle
Definition
Is one of the two cycles of viral reproduction, the other being lytic cycle.
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Provirus
Definition
Is the genetic material of a virus as incorporated into, and able to replicate with, genome of a host cell.
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Retrovirus
Definition
Any RNA virus that infects DNA copy of genome into host cells in order to replicate.
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Reverse Transcriptase
Definition
An enzyme that catalyzes the formation of DNA from an RNA template in reverse transcription.
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Prion
Definition
A protein that is believed to be the cause of brain damange.
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Viroid
Definition
An infectious entity affecting plant.
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Alga
Definition
A large group of simple nonflowering plants containing chlorophyll but lacking stems, roots, leaves, and vascular tissue.
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Spore
Definition
Is a unit of asexually reproduction that may be adapted for disperal and for survival.
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Aliate
Definition
Is an organism with one or more whip-like organelles.
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Colony
Definition
 a colony refers to several individual organisms of the same species living closely together,
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Thallus
Definition
is a plant body of algae, fungi, or other organisms formerly assigned to obsolete group Thallophyta.
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Gametophyate
Definition
in the life cycle of plants with alternating generations
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Plasmodium
Definition
is actually a protozoan that is a single celled organism
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Hypha
Definition
Each of the branching filaments that make up the mycelium of a fungus
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Transcription
Definition
the passage of water through a plant from the roots trhough the vescular system to the atmosphere.
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