Virus And Bacteria Quiz 37 (20 MCQs)

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1. In which way are viruses and cells similar?

Correct Answer: A) Genetic Material.

2. Which vector is associated with the West Nile Virus and malaria?

Correct Answer: B) Mosquitoes.

3. What does a virus have on the outside?

Correct Answer: A) A protein coat.

4. The whiplike tail on some bacteria that help them move

Correct Answer: C) Flagella.

5. Which disease is caused by a fungus?

Correct Answer: A) Athlete's Foot.

6. Diseases that can be transmitted between people are

Correct Answer: A) Infectious.

7. A pathogen becoming stronger over time until it can no longer be treated by usual methods is known as

Correct Answer: B) Antibiotic resistance.

8. Which best describes how viruses affect many organisms?

Correct Answer: B) They cause disease in the organisms.

9. What field of study names living things?

Correct Answer: A) Taxonomy.

10. Bacteria that use light energy to convert carbon dioxide and water to carbon compounds and oxygen as a way to obtain energy is .....

Correct Answer: D) Phototrophic autotroph.

11. The correct steps of the lytic cycle are

Correct Answer: C) Attachment, injection, replication, assembly, lysis.

12. Which of the following is TRUE about viruses?

Correct Answer: A) The are not made of cells.

13. In the lytic cycle, the host cell

Correct Answer: C) Is destroyed.

14. The Archaea are known for living is environments that would kill other life. They are known as

Correct Answer: A) Extremophiles.

15. Consumer bacteria get their food through

Correct Answer: D) Consuming other organisms.

16. A tiny non-living particle that invades and then multiplies inside of a living cell is called a:

Correct Answer: B) Virus.

17. Protists are

Correct Answer: C) Mostly unicellular with some multicellular species.

18. A collective mass of hyphae are referred to as .....

Correct Answer: C) Mycelium.

19. The substance that gives producer bacteria their green color is

Correct Answer: A) Chlorophyll.

20. HIV is a ..... meaning that it is composed not of DNA but of RNA.

Correct Answer: C) Retrovirus.