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Bacteria and Viruses Quiz
Archaea
Question: What are the two major domains of prokaryotes?
Answer: Bacteria and Archaea.
Question: Where can archaea be found?
Answer: Anywhere! :)
Question: Which archaea likes salt?
Answer: Halophiles.
Question: Three groups of archaea:
Answer: Methanogens, halophiles, and thermoacidophiles.
Question: Which archaea do not like oxygen?
Answer: Methanogens.
Bacteria
Question: Is bacteria a eukaryote or a prokaryote?
Answer: Prokaryote.
Question: The cell wall provides...
Answer: Shape and Protection.
Question: How do prokaryotes move?
Answer: The use long flagella, along with other mechanisms, to move through fluid environments.
Question: Gram- negative color?
Answer: pink
Question: Gram- positive color?
Answer: purple
Definitions for bacteria
Question: Inside prokaryotic cells there is a semifluid substance called....
Answer: Cytoplasm.
Question: The normal method of reproduction in prokaryotes is called.....
Answer: Binary Fission.
Question: Many bacteria have a protective outer covering called _________
Answer: a capsule
Question: When cocci occur in chains, they are called ___________
Answer: streptococci
Question: Grapelike clusters of cocci are called __________
Answer: staphylococci
Viruses
Question: Are viruses living or non-living?
Answer: Non-living.
Question: What is the cycle called that makes new viral particles immediately?
Answer: The Lytic Cycle.
Question: What is the cycle called where the virus becomes part of the host genome and makes new particles later?
Answer: The Lysogenic Cycle.
Question: What are short, circular, single strands of RNA lacking a capsid that infects plant cells?
Answer: Viroids
Question: What are prions?
Answer: Prions are infectious particles containing protein but no nucleic acids.
Definitions for viruses
Question: What is the protein coat around the genetic information called?
Answer: A Capsid.
Question: Antibiotics are what against viruses?
Answer: Ineffective.
Question: What are the viruses called that infect bacteria?
Answer: Bacteriophages.
Question: What is an intermediate host that transfers a pathogen or parasite to another organism called?
Answer: Vector.
Question: What contains a harmless version of a virus, bacteria, or a toxin that causes an immune response when introduced to the body?
Answer: Vaccine.