Microbiology Test Review

Both viruses and bacteria are considered living things.

• True

• False

Bacteria are always bad for you.

• True

• False

How can virus replicate?

• Each virion goes through binary fission

• The virus must infect a host cell to use the host's cellular machinery for replication

• Each virion goes through conjugation

Viruses cause diseases such as:

• AIDS

• Influenza

• Chicken pox

• Strep throat

Viruses depend on a host cell to synthesize their _______ and to make copies of themselves.

• proteins

• carbohydrates

• lipids

• vitamins

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_______ kill bacteria but have no effect on viruses.

• Antibiotics

• Vaccines

• Painkillers

• Antivirals

Prokaryotes are classified primarily based on the methods they use to get energy from the environment and how they get ___ from the environment to build organic molecules.

• carbon

• oxygen

• nitrogen

• hydrogen

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Match the term to the definition:

• Plasmid

• Hair-like structure that the cell uses for movement

• Pilus

• Outermost layer of the cell that provides protection

• Nucleoid

• Hair-like structure that attaches cell to surface and can transfer genetic material from one cell to another

• Flagellum

• Region inside the cell that contains genetic material but is not surrounded by a nuclear membrane

• Capsule

• Circular piece of genetic material

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