| Term | Definition |
|---|
| viruses | non- living particles, don't grow respire, develop |
| bacteriophage | a virus that infects a bacterium |
| viral structure | inner core rna or dna |
| Capsid | outer core of protein of viral structure |
| attachment to a host cell | recognizes and attaches tp receptors sites on cell's plasma membrane |
| Lytic cycle | virus attaches, expels, takes over, reproduce and exit with killing it |
| lysogenic cycle | integrated "provirus" and exitby exocytosis |
| plant virus | 1st virus to be identified or tobacco mosaic virus |
| hiv | provirus has lysogenic cycle |
| retro virus | have nucleic acid RNA |
| Bacteria | some undergo photosynthesis or chemosynthesis |
| Gram stain | placed on bacteria which turns pur or pi depending on the structure of their cell walls |
| pink | gram negative |
| purple | gram positive |
| bacilli | rod shaped |
| cocci | round shaped |
| endospore | help bacteria survive in harsh conditions |
| endospores | can lay dormant for thousands of years and still survive |
| antibiotics | kills certain bacteria |
| spirilli | spiral shaped |
| Kingdom protista | two main groups protozoans and algae |
| protozoans | classified by their mobility |
| amoeba | move and feed by false fett called psuedopods |
| Ciliates | move by cilia ex. paramecium |
| flagellates | move by a flagella ex. euglena |
| sporozoans | parasitic protozoans ex. trypanosoma |
| Phylum chrysophyta | golden algae (diatoms) unicellular outer shell made of silica |
| Phylum pyrrophyta | fire algae (dinoflagellates) unicellular responsible for red tide |
| Phylum chlorophyta | green algae (spirogyra) multicellular |
| phylum phaeophyta | brown algae (kelp,sargassum) multicellular |
| phylum rhodophyta | red algae (polysiphonia) multicellular |
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