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- 4. Virus A small infectious agent that is unable to replicate outside a living animal cell
- 5. those that make their own food by chemosynthesis
- 6. a slender threadlike structure, especially a microscopic appendage that enables many protozoa, bacteria, spermatozoa, etc. to swim.
- 7. infection the incorporation of viral DNA into a host cell, replication of that material, and the release of the new viruses
- 8. curved-shaped bacteria which can range from a gently curved shape to a corkscrew spiral
- 11. staining a test that checks for bacteria at the site of a suspected infection such as the throat, lungs, genitals, or in skin wounds
- 12. any of a genus of rod-shaped, gram-positive, aerobic or (under some conditions) anaerobic bacteria widely found in soil and water.
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- 1. organisms that carry out photosynthesis
- 2. Virus extremely minute infectious particles consisting of a protein coat and a core of nucleic acid
- 3. viruses that infect and replicate only in bacterial cells
- 9. the protein shell of a virus particle that surrounds its nucleic acid
- 10. a spherical-shaped bacterium