Across
- 3. Infection caused by the presence of a virus in the body.
- 4. a bacterium with a rigid spiral structure, found in stagnant water and sometimes causing disease.
- 6. a rod-shaped bacterium.
- 9. the protein shell of a virus particle surrounding its nucleic acid.
- 11. a photosynthetic organism (such as a green plant or a cyanobacterium) that utilizes energy from light to synthesize organic molecules
Down
- 1. a small infectious agent that is unable to replicate outside a living animal cell.
- 2. organisms that are able to fix inorganic carbon using a chemical energy obtained through the oxidation of reduced compounds.
- 5. a virus that parasitizes a bacterium by infecting it and reproducing inside it.
- 7. any spherical or roughly spherical bacterium.
- 8. organisms that are able to fix inorganic carbon using a chemical energy obtained through the oxidation of reduced compounds.
- 10. a slender threadlike structure, especially a microscopic appendage that enables many protozoa, bacteria, spermatozoa, etc. to swim.
- 12. a plant pathogen that is a virus consisting of a single strand of RNA