Chapter 21 Vocab
Across
- 6. Group of drugs used to block the growth and reproduction of bacterial pathogens.
- 8. Particles are made of protein, nucleic acids, and sometimes lipids that can replicate only by infecting cells.
- 10. Diesease-causing agents.
- 12. Asexual reproduction in which an organism replicates and is divided in half producing two identical daughter cell
- 13. Unicellular organism that lacks a nucleus.
- 14. RNA virus that contains RNA as its genetic information.
Down
- 1. Virus that infects bacteria.
- 2. Protein coat surrounding a Virus.
- 3. Infection is when a virus enters a cell makes copies of itself and causes the cell to burst.
- 4. Structure produced by prokaryotes in unfavorable conditions and has a thick internal wall that encloses DNA and a portion of the cytoplasm.
- 5. where some prokaryotes exchange genetic information.
- 7. Bacteriophage DNA that is embedded in the bacterial host's DNA
- 9. Preparationtion of weekend or killed pathogen used to produce immunity to disease.
- 11. Infection is where a virus embeds its DNA into the DNA of the host's cells DNA.