1. Which disease is NOT caused by a viral infection? (1 point)
Influenza
Hepatitis B
Herpes
Tuberculosis
2. Rod-shaped bacteria are called _____. (1 point)
Spirilla
Pathogenic
bacilli
cocci
3. What lies at the core of a virus particle? (1 point)
DNA or RNA
Carbohydrate
Protein
A capsid
4. If a virus has taken over the cell and is manufacturing copies of itself at a rapid rate, the virus is experiencing this stage of its life cycle. (1 point)
Metaphase
The lysogenic cycle
Telophase
The lytic cycle
5. These medicines are effective at preventing some viral infection in humans. (1 point)
Antibiotics
Vaccines
Aspirin
Ibuprophen
6. These bacteria cannot produce their own food and must absorb nutrients from their surroundings. (1 point)
Heterotrophs
Photosynthetic bacteria
Autotrophs
Chemosynthetic bacteria
7. Viruses are ______________. (1 point)
living organisms in the kingdom Archaebacteria
nonliving parasitic particles
responsible for diseases like tetanus and syphilis
classified as obligate aerobes
8. Organisms that are poisoned by oxygen are given this name. (1 point)
Saprobes
Obligate aerobes
Facultative anaerobes
Obligate anaerobes
9. Virus undergo replication by _______________. (1 point)
duplicating its chromosomes and undergoing mitosis
reducing its chromosomes by half and undergoing meiosis
injecting its genes into a living cell
simple binary fission
10. Bacteria exchange genetic information in a process called _____ using a cellular extension called _____. (1 point)
binary fission; cilia
mitosis; flagellum
conjugation; pilus
kissing; lips

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