Obligatory Intracellular Parasites - correct answer ✔✔What viruses are, meaning that they absolutely
require living host cells in order to multiply
,Virion - correct answer ✔✔A complete, fully developed, infectious viral particle composed of nucleic
acid and surrounded by a protein coat outside its host
How are living things classified? - correct answer ✔✔Kingdom, phylum, genus, species
Which classifications contain microorganisms? - correct answer ✔✔Genus and species
How are viruses different from other microorganisms? - correct answer ✔✔They require a host in order
to reproduce.
What are some roles of microorganisms other than disease? - correct answer ✔✔Industrial use such as
food production, vitamins, and antibiotics. Within the human body it protection, digestion, and vitamin
synthesis.
Eukaryotes are divided into? - correct answer ✔✔Everything but prokaryotes
Order viruses, eukaryotes, and bacteria by size - correct answer ✔✔Smallest to largest: viruses →
bacteria → eukaryotes
What are some roles of microorganisms? - correct answer ✔✔• Disease
• Protection, digestion, vitamin synthesis within the human body
Cell Theory - correct answer ✔✔Cells are the fundamental unit of life and carry out the basic functions
of living things
Spontaneous Generation - correct answer ✔✔Early belief that some forms of life came from vital forces
present in nonliving or decomposing matter
(ex. flies from manure)
Germ Theory of Disease - correct answer ✔✔Many diseases are caused by the growth of microbes in the
body and not by sins
, Koch's Postulates - correct answer ✔✔The 4 steps necessary to confirm if a suspected pathogen is
indeed the cause of a disease
1. Pathogen must be present in every case of the disease
2. The pathogen must be isolated from the diseased host and grown in pure culture
3. The specific disease must be reproduced when a pure culture of the pathogen is inoculated into a
healthy susceptible host
4. The pathogen must be reisolated from the experimentally infected host
How did Pasteur disprove the theory of spontaneous generation? - correct answer ✔✔He showed that
microbes caused fermentation and spoilage through his swan neck flask experiment
Vacuoles - correct answer ✔✔Temporary storage for substances such as proteins, sugars, organic acids,
and inorganic ions; found in eukaryotic cells
Mitochondria - correct answer ✔✔Serves as the power house of the cell because of their role in ATP
(energy); found in eukaryotic cells
Nucleus - correct answer ✔✔Enclosed in a double membrane and contains most of the DNA of the cell;
found in eukaryotic cells
Nucleoid - correct answer ✔✔A region in a prokaryotic cell where the DNA is found
Cell Wall - correct answer ✔✔Protects cells from bursting
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