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Unit 6 vocab.
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Antibiotic | Asubstance produced by or derived from a microorganism and able in dilute solution to inhabit or kill another microorganism. |
| Antibiotic resistance | Resistance to one or more anitbiotics, usually due to additional genetic information. |
| Bacillus | A cylindrical or rod-shaped bacterium. |
| Coccus | A spherical bacterium |
| Gram Stain | A method for the different staining of bacteria that involves fixing the bacterial cells to a slide and staining with crystal violet and iodine, then washing with alcohol then counter staining with safranin. |
| Zone of inhibition | A region around a chemical saturated disc, where bacteria are unable to grow due to adverse effects of the compound disc. |
| Antiviral drugs | Drugs that act, are effective, or ae directed againest viruses |
| Capsid | The protein shell tht encloses to viral genome. It maybe rod-shaped, polyhedral, or more complex in shape |
| Electron microscope | A microscope that focuses on an electron beam through specimen |
| Envelope | A double layer of lipid surrounding the viral capsid |
| Host cell | A cell on or in which smaller organisms or viruses live, feed and reproduce |
| Lysis | A process of disintegration or dissolution, as of cells |
| Virion | A complete virus particle that consists of an RNA or DNA core with a protein coat sometimes with anexternal envelope and that is the extracellular infective form of a virus |
| Virus | Any large group of submicroscopic infective agents that are reguarded either as extremley simple microorganisms or as extremley complex molecules, that typically contain a protein coat surrounding an RNA or DNA core of genetic material |
| Antiseptic | A substance that inhabits the growth or action of microorganisms especially in or on living tissue |
| Contagious | An infectious disease communicable by contact with one who has it, with a bodily discharge or such a patient |
| Epidemic | Affecting or tending to affect an atypically large number of individuals within a population, community, or region at the smetime |
| Immunity | Acondition of being able to resist a particular disease especially through preventing reproduction of a pathogenic organism |
| Infectious | Capable of causing infection |
| Pandemic | Occuring over a wide geographic area and affecting a highg portion of the population |
| Pathogenic | Causing or capable of causing disease |
| Quarantine | A restraint upon the activities or travels of persons or the transport of goods that is designed to prevent the spread of disease |
| Sanitation | The promotion of hygiene and prevention of disease by maintenance of clean conditions |
| Sterile | Free from living organisms and especially microorganisms |
| Vaccination | THe introduction into humans or domestic animals of microorganisms that have previously been treated to make them harmless for the purpose of inducing the development of immunity |
| Virulent | Able to over come bodily defence mechanisms to cause infection or disease |
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