Taxonomy/virus and bacteria Flashcards
4 uses of bacteria
Producers of food
Decomposition
Nitrogen fixation
Man-made uses
6 kingdoms
Phylum-Chordata *subphylum*-vertebrata Class-mammalia Order-primates Family-hominidae Genus-HOMO Species-sapien
3 shapes of bacteria
Cocci-little circles
Bacilli-hot dogs
Spiralum-sprial
Lytic cycle
Cause a cell to burst and die
Lysogenic cycle
Inserts itself right into the chromosome
Retrovirus
Has RNA
Prions
Protein causing disease
What do pathogens like
Warm Dark Moist Neutral Anaerobic Isotonic
How do you catch a disease
Contact
Airborne
Animal vectors
Food/water
Bodily fluids
First line of defense
Skin
Secretion
Tears, earwax, mucus, saliva
Second line of defense
Macrophages loaded with lysosomes Inflammatory response Fever B CELLS bone marrow T CELLS thymus gland
Third line of defense
Antibiotics
Antibodies-proteins made by ribosomes made to fight disease
Antigen-foreign substance
B+T cells
Gets message from helper t-T cells-b cells- memory T cells
3 domains
Bacteria
Archea
Eukarya
6 kingdoms
Eubacteria Archaebacteria Protista Fungi Plantea Animalia