Lesson 12 - Bacteria and Viruses

Question 1

What is microbiology?

Answer 1

the study of microscopic organisms

Question 2

What two kingdoms include bacteria?

Answer 2

Archaebacteria, Eubacteria

Question 3

Archaebacteria and eubacteria differ in three different ways. What are they?

Answer 3

Chemical structure, genetic structure, archaebacteria can survive in extreme environments whereas eubacteria cannot.

Question 4

Bacteria benefits in many ways. What are four of those ways?

Answer 4

Break down food to make nutrients for us, contribute oxygen to the environment, contribute food to the ecosystem, are decomposers

Question 5

List the 8 parts of the anatomy of bacteria

Answer 5

Cell membrane, cell wall, capsule, double-stranded DNA, ribosomes, plasmids, plus, flagella

Question 6

Bacteria comes in four different shapes. What are they?

Answer 6

spherical, rod-shaped, corkscrew, coiled

Question 7

Bacteria reproduce via…

Answer 7

binary fission

Question 8

Pathogenic bacteria cause

Answer 8

disease

Question 9

What is a helpful resource for fighting off bad bacteria?

Answer 9

Antibiotics

Question 10

TRUE or FALSE: viruses are alive

Answer 10

FALSE

Question 11

Viruses don’t do these four things

Answer 11

Grow, reproduce, require energy, have cells

Question 12

A virus has a protein shell called a…

Answer 12

Capsid

Question 13

Viruses can infect the cells of…

Answer 13

Protists, bacteria, plants, fungi, animals

Question 14

Viruses cannot act alone.
They need a ______

Answer 14

host

Question 15

When a virus takes over a cell, the cell becomes a ____________ to make more viruses

Answer 15

factory

Question 16

The virus breaks in to the cell, attaches to the cell, and then begins to ________ ____________ from the cell in order to replicate its own ______

Answer 16

steal energy, DNA

Question 17

There are three ways to prevent and/or fight a virus. They are…

Answer 17

Prevention through vaccines, anti-viral drugs, anti-viral plants