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Friendly Bio. Ch 18
Vocabulary Terminology for Chapter 18 in Friendly Biology
Question or Term | Answer or Definition |
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Prokaryotes | Means they have no nuclear membrane or organized organelles and are members of the Kingdom Monera. |
Unicellular | Means they solely consist of one cell and are members of the Kingdom Monera. |
Binary Fission and Budding | Are the primary forms of reproduction in the Kingdom Monera. |
Phylum Schizophyta | Is included in Kingdom Monera and includes the bacteria which causes disease. |
Members of Phylum Schizophyta either live | As parasites on living things or off dead living things. |
Capsid | Is the name of the protein coat that encloses strands of DNA or RNA of Viruses. |
Obligate intracellular organisms | Are viruses because they must live within cells of a host to survive. |
Vaccines | Are the main way we control viruses. |
Antibodies or immunoglobulins | Are produced by our body’s immune system when stimulated by a vaccine to fight off disease when encountered at a later time. |
Viruses | Work by entering a host cell and take control of the cell’s DNA in an effort to create more viruses and then the host cell dies. |
Virus classification | Is either DNA or RNA. |
Antibiotics | Is another way to control viruses, but isn’t usually successful. |