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  • Q1

    Pasteur's experiment with boiling broth in swan neck flasks helped to..

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    explain the existence of maggots

    produce a vaccine for COVID 19

    create a cure for smallpox

    debunk the theory of spontaneous generation

    30s
  • Q2

    Bacteria that makes its own food and lives in the hydrothermal vents of the ocean are known as: 

    Chemoheterotrophic

    photoautotrophic

    chemoautotrophic 

    photoheterotrophic

    30s
  • Q3

    What is a pathogen?

    A vaccination for smallpox

    Bacteria, protozoa, fungi, and viruses can cause illness. 

    A beneficial bacteria or virus

    30s
  • Q4

    A ______________ infection, is where the virus breaks open the bacterium’s cell wall. 

    Lytic

    Lysogenic

    30s
  • Q5

    A  ______________ infection is when the virus may remain inactive for an extended time period.

    Lysogenic

    Lytic

    30s
  • Q6

     Viruses that infect bacteria are called ____________________?

    prophage

    bacteriophage

    30s
  • Q7

    A virus’s ___________________, or protein coat, helps trick a host cell to take in the virus. 

    Cytoplasm

    Cell Wall

    capsid

    Cell Membrane

    30s
  • Q8

    One practice that we still use today, especially in preventing bacteria growth in milk and alcoholic drinks was invented by....

    Koch

    Redi

    Pasteur

    Semmelweis

    30s
  • Q9

    Semmelweis was known for his work with childbed fever, and ultimately encouraged the practice of _____________________.

    cleaning their hands and instruments with a chlorine solution.

    pasteurization

    Incubation

    30s
  • Q10

    A bacteria is prokaryotic, so it has NO ______________

    genetic information

    ribosomes

    Nucleus

    flagella

    30s
  • Q11

    True or False:  Virus's contain genetic information

    True

    False

    30s
  • Q12

    True or False: Virus's cannot reproduce on their own.

    True

    False

    30s
  • Q13

    True or False: Virus's cannot perform metabolic processes on their own.

    True

    False

    30s
  • Q14

    Viruses are not made up of cells

    True

    False

    30s
  • Q15

    True or False: Using an antibiotic too frequently can lead to resistance?

    False

    True

    30s

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