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What is
microbiology?
What are microbes?
What are viruses?
Are viruses living or
nonliving?
The study of microbes
Organisms that require a
microscope to be seen
Non-living microbes
What is a
bacteriophage?
Explain how viruses
reproduce.
How are viral diseases
treated?
How are viral diseases
prevented?
A virus that affects a
bacteria
by replicating genes of
a host cell
Quarantine; symptoms
are treated
vaccines
List some common
viruses
What is a host cell?
What a virus/parasite lives
in; provides necessities for
viruses to reproduce
Flu, common cold, HIV
What are vectors?
An organism that
carries/transmits disease
Non-living
What is a
prokaryote?
Single-celled organism,
does not have a
membrane-bound nucleus
What is bacteria?
Where do bacteria live?
Single celled living cell,
prokaryotic
Warm, moist areas
What is an eukaryote?
Single celled organism,
has a membrane-bound
nucleus
How are bacterial
diseases spread?
Skin-to-skin contact; contact
with infected surfaces
How do bacteria
reproduce?
What common diseases
are caused by bacteria?
How are bacterial
diseases treated?
Binary fission: division of a cell
into two identical cells
pneumonia
antibiotics
What are ways to
prevent getting and
contagious or
infectious disease?
Healthy lifestyle; vaccines
What are the three
basic shapes of
bacteria?
Sphere, rod, spiral
What are the pro’s and con’s
to using antimicrobial
products such as hand
sanitizer? Prevention of
disease spread; Antibiotic
resistance
What are fungi?
Multicellular eukaryotic
organisms; have a cell
wall
How are fungal diseases
spread?
How are fungal diseases
treated?
Contact with infected
surfaces/organisms
Antifungals
Where do parasites get
their food and energy?
How do parasites
spread?
How are parasites
treated?
Organisms they live
in/on
You must come in
contact with the
parasite
Anti-parasitic medicines
What are some
common disease
caused by fungi?
Athlete’s foot
How do fungi
reproduce?
Sexually or asexually
What are parasites?
Organisms that live on or in
another organism and benefit
at the organisms expense
What is a pathogen?
A disease causing microbe
What is an epidemic?
What is a pandemic?
What is influenza?
What are vaccines?
A global outbreak of a
pathogen
The flu
Medicines that prevent
viruses
What are antibiotics?
Medicines that treat
pathogens (except
viruses)
What is binary fission?
What is antibiotic
resistance? The
inability of an antibiotic
to treat a pathogen due
to over use
What is the definition
of mutation?
What is an allergy? Your
body’s response to
change in environment
Define
infectious/contagious
disease. Diseases that
What is an outbreak?
Compare the terms
epidemic and pandemic
a local outbreak of a
pathogen
Splitting of a cell into
two identical cells
can be spread and effect
the body negatively
What type of
adaptations do
parasites have to help
them survive? Can
weaken a host while they thrive
What is asexual
reproduction?
Reproduction that does not
require two organisms; binary
fussion, budding
A sudden increase in
the number of cases of
a disease
What are cells?
Basic structures of life
A change in a cell’s
genetic structure
Local vs global
List the characteristics
of living things
Grow, reproduce, respond to
environment, obtain and use
energy