Author: Judy Jones

Diseases

Disease causing agent (bacteria or virus)? Symptoms?
HIV/AIDS:
Influenza:
Smallpox:
Step Throat:

Importance of Bacteria

Important roles bacteria serve in the ecosystem:
1.
2.
3.

Bacteria

Prokaryotic, eukaryotic, or both?
Membrane-bound organelles?
Do they have ribosomes?
What kind of chromosomes do they have?
Unicellular, multicellular, or both?
How do they get their food?
How do they move?
How do they maintain homeostasis?
How do they reproduce?
Are they bigger or smaller than eukaryotes?

Information Organizer #9
Virus & Bacteria
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Vocabulary

Capsid:
Bacteriophage:
Lysogenic Infection:
Lytic Infection:
Plasmid:
Endospore:

Life Cycle of Virus

Describe what is happening:
A:
B:
C:
D:

Two Kingdoms of Bacteria

Shapes of Bacteria: 1. 2. 3.
Eubacteria: They have ________________ that protect them and contain peptidoglycan.
Examples:
Archeabacteria: They lack _________________ in their cell walls. Their DNA is more like ________________ than like eubacteria, so they might be the ancestors of _________________.
Examples:

Viruses

Why do most biologists consider viruses to be not living?
Label the parts of the virus below:
Where is the nucleic acid located?
Why is it difficult to make vaccines for viruses like HIV, influenza, and the virus that causes the common cold?