Bacterial Reproduction and Viral Replication

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Across
  1. 2. Nonliving particles that can infect hosts.
  2. 7. The range of different inherited traits within a species
  3. 8. The process of sexual reproduction in bacteria; where one bacterium transfers a piece of DNA to another bacterium through a tube-like structure.
  4. 9. Process of viral replication where a virus's genetic material integrates into the host cell's DNA.
Down
  1. 1. The process of asexual reproduction in bacteria; a single bacterium splits in half to create two identical copies of the original bacterium.
  2. 3. Unicellular prokaryotic organisms
  3. 4. Process of viral replication where a virus takes over the host cell and forces it to make more viruses. The new viruses then burst out of the cell, destroying the cell in the process.
  4. 5. A specific organism that is to be infected by a virus.
  5. 6. A small piece of DNA that carries a set of instructions