What is an infectious particle made only of a strand of DNA or RNA surrounded by a protein coat?

• Virus

• Pathogen

• Viroids

• Infection

Any living organism or particle that can cause an infectious disease.

• Virus

• Pathogen

• Viroids

• Infection

A ​ (a)   is an infectious particle that causes diseases in plants.

• viroid
• prion
• pathogen

A ​ (a)   is an infectious particle made of proteins that causes other proteins to fold incorrectly.

• prion
• pathogen
• viroid

A protein shell that surrounds a virus.

A ​ (a)   is a virus that infects bacteria.

• bacteriophage
• prophage
• bacterium

The phage DNA inserted into the host cell's DNA.

Match the following

• Contains RNA and reverse transcriptase.

• Lytic Infection

• Phage combines DNA into host cell's DNA.

• Lysogenic Infection

• Hostcell burst releasing viral offspring

• Retrovirus

Rapid outbreak of an infection that affects many people.

Substance that stimulates the body's own immune response against invasion by microbes.