Chapter 19&27&28 Flashcards
non-living infectious particles that can reproduce
viruses
needing to use the inside of a host cell to reproduce- can replicate only within a host cell
obligate intracellular parasites
only infect bacteria
bacteriophages
a virus consists of a ___ surrounded by a ____
nucleic acid, protein coat
protein shell, wraps around the DNA or RNA
capsid
viruses can only infect ___ cells from specific species
specific
slow-acting, non-living, virtually indestructible infectious proteins that cause brain diseases in mammals
prions
propagate by converting normal proteins into the altered prion version
prions
Bacteria and Archaea belong to this group
Prokaryotes
Prokaryotes are ____, meaning they are everywhere
Ubiquitous
difficult to study because they love extreme environments (extremophiles)
archaea
Archaea are different from bacteria because of these 3 things
membrane structure, metabolic, and transcription/translation related genes
Most prokaryotic cells are about ___- ___x smaller than eukaryotic cells
10-100x
Earth’s first organisms were likely this
prokaryotes
The three most common shapes of prokaryotes are…
cocci (spheres), bacilli (rods), and spirals
DNA shaped as a ring (prokaryote)
circular chromosome
structure for a cell
cell wall *some of these structures are present in all bacteria, others depend on the type
used to exchange DNA between bacterial cells
sex pilus