Virus and Bacteria Vocabulary

Epidemics and pandemics are two types of an ___________.

(when a disease occurs unexpectedly in large numbers)

• Bacteria

• Virus

• Fungi

• Outbreak

An organism that cannot make their own food (a heterotroph).

• algae

• protozoan

• fungi

• bacteria

A unicellular organism that DOES NOT have a nucleus.

• eukaryote

• prokaryote

• microbe

• pathogen

a mixture containing a live or nonliving virus that help prevent viruses

• vaccine

• antibiotic

• binary fission

• microbiology

an agent that causes disease

• microbe

• algae

• mutant

• pathogen

any change in the DNA sequence of a cell

• pandemic

• epidemic

• mutant

• binary fission

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NGSS.MS-LS3-1

medicine that stops bacteria from growing and reproducing

• vaccine

• antibiotics

• host cell

• fungi

Illnesses caused by germs (bacteria, fungi, viruses)

• infectious disease

• parasitism

• outbreak

• protozoan

A microorganism is also called...

• pathogen

• fungi

• bacteria

• microbe

A protist that looks similar to a tiny animal

• protozoan

• pathogen

• prokaryote

• eukaryote