Virus And Bacteria Quiz 29 (20 MCQs)

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1. This is the word for a disease causing organism.

Correct Answer: B) Pathogen.

2. What is the role of flagella in a bacterial cell?

Correct Answer: B) Makes the bacteria move.

3. Which of the 3 microbes is the largest

Correct Answer: C) Protist.

4. Reproduces using lytic or lysogenic cycles

Correct Answer: A) Viruses.

5. A Pathogen is a

Correct Answer: A) Disease causing agent.

6. An antibiotic is a drug that selectively kills

Correct Answer: B) Bacteria.

7. Where are protist found?

Correct Answer: A) Moist areas.

8. Which of the following is not a way to prevent or treat viruses?

Correct Answer: A) Antibiotics.

9. Which of the following occurs after a virus attaches to a host cell

Correct Answer: C) The virus inserts its genetic information into the host cell.

10. A disease causing microorganism such as fungi, protozoans, parasites, bacteria, and viruses.

Correct Answer: A) Pathogen.

11. In our bird beak lab, we showed how .....

Correct Answer: A) Different beaks are adapted to eat different food.

12. ..... is when one cell reproduces by division in half to become two cells.

Correct Answer: B) Binary fission.

13. What types of cells do bacteriaphages infect?

Correct Answer: A) Bacteria.

14. The organisma Felis catus and Felis silvestris belong to the same .....

Correct Answer: C) Genus.

15. The reproductive cells of fungi are called:

Correct Answer: C) Spores.

16. Viruses destroy .....

Correct Answer: B) Host cells.

17. Reasons that viruses are considered to be nonliving is because

Correct Answer: D) All of the above.

18. Virus is latin for

Correct Answer: D) Poison.

19. What is the piece of DNA that is embedded in the host's DNA called?

Correct Answer: B) Prophage.

20. The best way to identify a bacteria cell is

Correct Answer: A) Single-celled, no nucleus.