Bacteria and Virus

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Across
  1. 2. - A complex multilayered structure that serves to protect these organisms from their unpredictable and often hostile environment.
  2. 4. - The protein shell of a virus particle that surrounds its nucleic acid
  3. 6. - A member of a large group of unicellular microorganisms which have cell walls but lack organelles.
  4. 9. - A rod shaped bacterium
  5. 10. - An organism causing disease to its host
Down
  1. 1. - Any spherical or roughly spherical bacterium.
  2. 3. - An anomalous growth of certain bacteria, such as Escherichia coli, in which cells continue to elongate but do not divide
  3. 5. - A simple microorganism that infects cells and may cause disease
  4. 7. - Of, relating to, or having the form of a helix
  5. 8. - A nucleic acid present in all living cells that has structural similarities to DNA