Twenty Questions - Effingham County Schools
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Twenty Questions
Viruses and Bacteria
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1. What do streptococci bacteria
look like?
2. When treated with Gram stain,
Gram positive bacteria appear…
Purple
3. Bacteria are sometimes called
nature’s recyclers because they…
Break down nutrients in dead
matter/decompose dead matter
4. All viruses are made of proteins
and….
Nucleic acids (DNA or RNA)
5. Which of the following pathogens are the
smallest?
A. Virus
B. Bacteria
C. Fungi
D. Protists
Virus
6. Bioremediation uses microbes
to…
Clean up pollutants
7. Prokaryotes reproduce usually
by:
Binary fission
8. A viral disease that can occur in
childhood and then reappear in adulthood
in a more serious form is….
Chicken pox
9. Which organisms are capable
of living in extreme environments?
Archae or Archaebacteria
10. Antibiotics do not treat most colds
because most colds are caused by:
A. Drug-resistant bacteria
B. Cold temperatures
C. Influenza viruses
D. Viral pathogens
C. Influenza viruses
11. Bacteria that are clustered
together like grapes have the
formation of:
Staphylo….
12. Which bacteria will you most
likely find in very salty water?
Halophiles
13. Bacteria cells do not have:
A. Cell membrane
B. Cell wall
C. Chromosome
D. Mitochondria
D. Mitochondria
14. Unlike lytic viruses, lysogenic
viruses do not….
Destroy (lyse) the host cell right away
15.Bacteria that cannot live
without oxygen are called...
Obligate aerobes
16. Which of the following diseases are
NOT caused by a bacterium?
A. Tooth decay
B. Tuberculosis
C. AIDS
D. Salmonella food poisoning
C. AIDS
17. Bacteriophages are ….
Viruses that infect bacteria cells.
18. A lytic infection ends with…
The bursting or lysis of the host cell
19. A viral capsid is made of?
Proteins
20. Name 2 things that may lead to
antibiotic resistance in bacteria
Overuse of antibiotics – doctors prescribing it
for viral infections.
Antibiotics mixed in with the feed of live
stock.
Patients not completing their dosage of
antibiotics.