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virus   Is an infectious particle made only of a strand of DNA or RNA surrounded by a protein coat.  
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pathagen   Any living organism or particle that can cause a infectious disease.  
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viroids   Are infectious particles that cause disease in plants.  
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prion   Is an infectious particle made only of proteins that can cause other proteina to folde incorrectly.  
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capsid   Is made up of gentic material surrounded by a protein shell .  
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bacteriophages   Are viruses that prey on bacteria.  
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lytic infection   Is an infection pathway in which the host cell bursts, releasing the new viral offspring into the host's system.  
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lysogenic infection   A phage combineds its DNA into the host cell's D  
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prophage   Is the phage DNA inserted into the host cell's DNA.  
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epidemic   Is a rapid outbreak of an infection that affects many people.  
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vaccine   Is a substance that stimulates the bodys's own immune response aginst invation by microbes.  
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retrovirus   Is a virus tha contains RNA and uses an enzyme called revers transcriptas to make a DNA copy.  
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obligate anaerobe   Prokaryotes that cannot live in the presence of oxygen.  
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oblegate aerobes   Organisms that need oxygen in their enviroment .  
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facultative aerobe   Can survive whether oxygen is present in the enviroment or not.  
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palsmid   Is a small piece of genetic material that can replicate separately from the prokaryot's maine chromosome.  
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flagellum   Is a long, whiplike structure outside of the a cell that is used for movement.  
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conjugate   Prokaryotes can exchange parts of their chronosomes through a hollow bridge of pili formed to connect two or more cells.  
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endospore   A specialized cell with a thick, protective wall .  
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biromediation   A process that uses microbes and other living things to break down pollutants.  
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toxin   a poision released by an organism.  
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antibiotics   work by stopping bacteria from making cell walls.  
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