This is a unit test on viruses and bacteria.

There are 70 questions of varying formats on the test : Fill in the blank, matching, multiple choice and short answer. All answers are included.

Topics covered are:
1) What is a virus? Includes definitions and the work of two scientists: Beijerinck and Stanley.
2) Characteristics of Viruses
3) Viruses: Living or Nonliving?
4) Viral reproduction: How do they do it? Includes lytic and lysogenic cycles. Students will label diagrams of both type of reproduction.
5) Retroviruses
6) Comparison of Viruses and Cells
7) Viral Diseases
8) Viroids and Prions
9) Introduction to Bacteria
10) Classification of prokaryotes
11) Characteristics of Bacteria
12) Structure of a bacterial cell
13) How do bacteria obtain energy? Discussion of heterotrophs, autotrophs, parasites, saprophytes, photosynthesis and chemosynthesis.
14) Growth and reproduction of bacteria: requirements for growth, binary fission, conjugation, endospore formation
15) The importance of bacteria: Role of decomposers, nitrogen fixation, human uses of bacteria.
16) Bacterial diseases in humans: Ways bacteria cause disease, pathogens, vaccines, antibiotics.
17) Symbiotic relationships: mutualism, commensalism, and parasitism is discussed.

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