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Viruses

Total questions: 25

Worksheet time: 13mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What are the three parts of a virus?

a)

Capsid, Nucleic Acid, and projections to attach

b)

RNA, mitochondria, and cell wall

c)

Capsid, Nucleic Acid, and ribosomes

d)

many organelles, cell membrane, and nucleus

2.

What are the three parts of a virus?

a)

A cover, DNA or RNA, and things on the outside to attach to the cell

b)

RNA, mitochondria, and cell wall

c)

a cover, RNA, and ribosomes

d)

organelles, cell wall, and DNA

3.

Are viruses alive?

a)

Yes

b)

No

4.

Are viruses made of cells?

a)

YES

b)

NO

5.

What do the projections on the outside of a virus do?

a)

Attach to a cell

b)

Push the cell farther away

c)

Explode upon entry to the cell

d)

for decoration

6.

Can viruses reproduce on their own?

a)

YES

b)

NO

7.

What does a virus need to reproduce?

a)

a cell the create the viruses for it

b)

mitochondria to support the virus

c)

another virus for sexual reproduction

d)

asexual reproduction to create clones

8.

If you have a cold or the flu (influenza) when do your symptoms appear after infection?

a)

Never

b)

very quickly after infection

c)

after a few years

d)

after a few months

9.

What does a LATENT virus mean?

a)

You have the virus, but it isn't reproducing yet

b)

You can never be sick again

c)

You are immune

d)

You will have bad symptoms everyday

10.

What happens to the host cell when viruses are released?

a)

It dies because viruses explode out of it

b)

It develops imortality

c)

It gets filled with spiders and the cell collapses

d)

It becomes immune to the virus

11.

How many viruses does it take to get you sick?

a)

one

b)

more than five

c)

more than 100

d)

more than 1,000

12.

Do antibiotics cure viruses?

a)

Yes

b)

No

13.

What do antibiotics kill?

a)

Bacteria

b)

Viruses

c)

Fungi

d)

Humans

14.

Do vaccines CURE a disease you have?

a)

Yes

b)

No

15.

What is a vaccine?

a)

A dead or weak virus put into you. Your body identifies the virus as bad, destroys it, and then next time you get the virus your body kills it immediately

b)

a government plot to kill you

c)

medicine that kills the viruses

d)

bacteria that kill the viruses

16.

You got the chicken pox as a child. In highschool, your friend you hang out with has chicken pox. Will you get chicken pox again?

a)

No, you are immune. Your body kills the virus so you don't get sick.

b)

Yes, you can never be immune to chicken pox

c)

No, the virus will fill your body until you explode

d)

Yes, you are being cursed

17.

HIV/AIDS is a virus that puts its DNA into your cells. Will you have bad symptoms immediately?

a)

yes

b)

no

18.

Are all bacteria bad?

a)

yes

b)

no

19.

Are bacteria always bad?

a)

yes

b)

no

20.

When you take antibiotics, it kills the bad bacteria in your body. What else does it kill?

a)

viruses in your body

b)

good bacteria in your stomach

c)

the proteins in your hair

d)

bad protists in your body

21.

Which of the following are killed with antibiotics? Select all that apply.

a)

bacteria

b)

fungi

c)

viruses

d)

protists

22.

Which of the following is/are a virus?

a)
b)
c)
d)
23.

Which of the following are ALIVE?

a)
b)
c)
d)
24.

Which of the following are NOT alive?

a)
b)
c)
d)
25.

Which of the following CANNOT obtain their own energy?

a)
b)
c)
d)