2nd Book, Chap 2

Question 1

Virus

Answer 1

Tiny, non living particle that enters and then reproduces inside a living cell

Question 2

Host

Answer 2

An organism that provides a source of energy for the virus or another organism

Question 3

Parasite

Answer 3

An organism that lives on or in a host and causes it harm

Question 4

Vaccine

Answer 4

A substance introduced in the body to help produce chemicals that destroy specific viruses

Question 5

Bacteria

Answer 5

Prokaryotes, no genetic material in the cells’ nucleus

Question 6

Cytoplasm

Answer 6

The region inside the cell embrace

Question 7

Ribosomes

Answer 7

Tiny structures in the cytoplasm where proteins are produced

Question 8

Flagellum

Answer 8

A long, whiplike structure that helps a cell to move

Question 9

Cellular respiration

Answer 9

The process of breaking down food to release energy

Question 10

Binary fission

Answer 10

A process in which one cell divides to form two identical cells

Question 11

Conjunction

Answer 11

The process in which one bacterium transfers some of its genetic material into another bacterium

Question 12

Endospore

Answer 12

Small, rounded, thick-walled resting cell that forms inside a bacterial cell

Question 13

Pasteurization

Answer 13

Food is heated to a temperature that is high enough to kill most harmful bacteria without changing the taste of the food

Question 14

Decomposers

Answer 14

Organisms that break down large, complex chemicals in dead organisms into small, simple chemicals

Question 15

Fungi

Answer 15

Eukaryotes, have cell walls, heterotrophs

Question 16

Hyphae

Answer 16

Fungi that are arranged in structures

Question 17

Fruiting bodies

Answer 17

Spores in the fungi’s reproductive structures

Question 18

Budding

Answer 18

Unicellular yeast cells undergone a form of asexual reproduction

Question 19

Lichen

Answer 19

Consists of fungus