Across
- 4. reduction time (3 words) time required to kill 90% of microorganisms at a specific temperature.
- 5. plasmid (2 words) encode antibiotic resistances.
- 7. infection (2 words) Systemic infection that began as a local infection
- 8. period (2 words) first appearance of mild or nonspecific signs and symptoms of an illness
- 12. Production of phage DNA and proteins.
- 15. conversion (2 words) obtaining a prophage gives bacteria new physical traits.
- 16. inhibiting, not killing, bacteria.
- 18. diseases that result from a specific toxin produced by bacteria.
- 21. phage (2 words) A defective bacteriophage carries bacterial chromosomal DNA into the cell it infects.
- 22. bind to receptors on host cells
- 23. protein coat made up of capsomeres.
- 24. localized area of cellular destruction and lysis.
Down
- 1. potential (2 words) degree to which pathogen can cause damage to host
- 2. mutation (2 words) loss/gain of bases results in a change in reading frame.
- 3. The extent of pathogenicity
- 6. makes all three forms of RNA.
- 9. disease (2 words) Disease with a period of no symptoms when the causative agent is inactive
- 10. Viruses in the blood
- 11. Digest fibrin clots allowing bacteria to escape from the clot
- 13. denature proteins and possibly dissolve membrane lipids.
- 14. radiation (2 words) sterilize through packaging material and destroys bacterial spores.
- 17. agent (2 words) microbe that is the cause of a disease
- 19. one organism benefits, and the other is unaffected
- 20. all the genetic information in a cell.