Viruses and Monerans

Question 0

Are viruses living or nonliving?

Answer 0

Nonliving

Question 1

What are the 6 characteristics of viruses?

Answer 1

• subcellular
• cannot independently perform metabolic activities
• do not contain the components necessary to carry on respiration or synthesize proteins
• do not grow
• has a protein coat
• contains dna or rna but not both

Question 2

Viruses are a type of_____

Answer 2

Nucleic acid

Question 3

Type of organisms a virus infects

Answer 3

Plant virus 
Bacterial viruses (bacteriophages)
Animal viruses (rabies, measles, etc)

Question 4

Viruses must do what do reproduce?

Answer 4

Get inside the cell

Question 5

Once inside it may destroy the hosts cells____

Answer 5

DNA

Question 6

The hosts cell is destroyed by the process called…

Answer 6

Lysis (lyric cycle)

Question 7

Host cell isn’t destroyed during the reproductive process

Answer 7

Lysogenic cycle

Question 8

What are two examples of the lysogenic cycle?

Answer 8

Herpes

Hepatitis

Question 9

Monerans are all______
A. Eukaryotic
B. Prokaryotic

Answer 9

Prokaryotic

Question 10

Monerans are mostly
A. Unicellular
B. Multicellular

Answer 10

A. Unicellular (some are colonial)

Question 11

Some Monerans are auto___

Answer 11

Trophs

Question 12

Obtain energy from light

Answer 12

Photoautotrophs

Question 13

Obtain energy from the oxidation of inorganic compounds

Answer 13

Chemoautotroph

Question 14

Most Monerans are hetero____

Answer 14

Trophs

Question 15

Monerans reproduce as equally, generally by____

Answer 15

Binary fission

Question 16

Buldge or bud is produced and develops into a mature organism

Answer 16

Budding

Question 17

Walls develop in the cell, separates and produces new organisms

Answer 17

Fragmentation