Study Guide for Ch 8 Viruses & Monerans

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1. Have you read ch 8 pages 206 to 227 in our textbook - green with school of fish on the cover?

2. Do you know the answers to all the questions on the two sided pink or green vocab sheet given out in class? This would be your BEST place to start studying for the test.

3. What are antibiotics used for?

4. How are antibiotics different from vaccines? Are they the same thing?

5. What organisms that we studied this week are very good at decomposing materials on earth. They are major players in many cycles such at the carbon, nitrogen and oxygen cycle.

6. List five diseases that bacteria cause? Can you also list 5 facts about bacteria in general?

7. Who was the man that found the cure for smallpox, and what did he have to observe to find the cure? He is the father or inventor of what?

8. What shapes can bacteria come in?
a. Round, triangular, and squared
b. Beagle-shaped and bone shaped
c. Rod shaped, spiral shaped, and round
d. Filamentous and rod shaped

9. For what types of pathogens do you get vaccines to prevent you from getting a sickness or disease?

10. What do members of the moneran kingdom NOT have that all members of the other 4 kingdoms DO have?

11. Nanometers are used to measure what type of organism?

12. How big is a nanometer?

13. What type of animal is responsible for spreading the Bubonic Plague?
a. Rat
b. Flea
c. Humans
d. Taylor K. and Mickey Mouse
e. Llamas

14. Meiosis is used for making what type of cells?
a. Gametes
b. Skin cells
c. Bacteria
d. Most all types of cells and tissues
e. Jail cells

15. What is the difference between a host and a parasite?

16. Cyanobacteria can make it's own food with the help of what organelle?

17. Why is cyanobacteria so important to the environment and well being of our planet?

18. Bacteria can be found where on our planet?

19. What's the name for any disease producing agent or organism?

20. This process of cell division helps repair skin by creating the exact same daughter cells as the parent cell.

21. If something has these two things, it's obviously living. Name them. (what is the definition of life)

22. What kingdoms are eukaryotic and what kingdoms are prokaryotic?

23. There are different ways a virus can get into a host.

24. How do viruses move? Legs, tail, flagellum, cilia, pseudopods or ???

25. Human bone, skin, nerve and all other cells are what type of cells?

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