Viruses and Bacteria Crossword
Across
- 4. Corkscrew shaped bacterium.
- 6. A spherically shaped bacterium.
- 7. A blood serum which contains antibodies, and is used to pass immunity to certain antigens.
- 8. An archeabacteria that lives in a very salty environment.
- 10. A bacteria that requires oxygen to survive.
- 18. An archeabacteria that lives in a very hot environment.
- 19. A toxin produced by the bacterium Clostridium botunlinum.
- 20. The bridges used in bacterial conjugation through which parts of the chromosomes are exchanged.
- 21. Viral cycle in which a virus embed its DNA into the host cell's DNA, becoming a prophage, and is replicated along with the replication of the host cell
- 24. A disease causes by the bacterium Bacillus anthracis usually acquired through contact with infected animals.
- 25. A cell lacking a nucleus
Down
- 1. An weakened or killed form of a pathogen used to produce immunity.
- 2. Rod Shaped bacterium
- 3. When a bacteria has resistance to an antibiotic.
- 5. Process in which nitrogen gas is converted into ammonia.
- 9. "True" bacteria
- 11. Viral cycle in which a virus enters a cell, makes a copy of itself and causes the cell to lyse
- 12. Bacteria often inhabiting extreme environments.
- 13. An archeabacteria that lives in a very acidic environment.
- 14. Virus that contains RNA as its genetic material
- 15. An archeabacteria that lives in a very high pressure environment.
- 16. A compound that blocks the growth and reproduction of a bacteria
- 17. The process in which a bacterium makes to identical copies of itself by splitting itself.
- 22. The process in which bacteria exchange genetic information using pili.
- 23. Outer protein coat of a virus