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Why are viruses considered to be nonliving?
Viruses do not use energy to grow or respond to their surroundings
Viruses cannot make food, take in food, or produce waste
How do viruses multiply?
They have to find a cell that matches them like a key, injects the DNA into the cell, it makes multiple copies, the cell fills up and bursts open and the new viruses set out to look for a new cell to infect
Host
A living thing that provides a source of energy for a virus or an organism
Parasite
Organisms that live on or in the host and causes harm to the host
Bacteriophage
Is a virus that infects bacteria called "Bacteria Gater"
How are the cells of a bacteria different from those of allother organisms?
Bacteria are prokaryotes
The genetic materials in their cells is not contained in the nucleus
What positive roles do bacteria play in people's lives?
Preservation of food
Producing food
Change foods-Milk into creme
Fuel
Decomposer
Medicines
Environmentally recylcling
Clean up the enviroment
How does sexual reproduction differ from asexual reproduction?
AR- a reproductive process that involves only one parent
SR- involves two parents who combine their genetic material to produce a new organism which differs from both parents, and produces offspring that are identical to the parent
Give an example of asexual reproduction.
Binary Fission
Binary Fission-one parent cell-copies itself- identical offspring
**Give an example of bacterial sexual reproduction
Conjucation
Are bacteria heterotrophs or autotrophs? EXPLAIN
Some are autotrophs make their own food by capturing and using the suns energy or chemical substances their environment
Some heterotrophs because they obtain food by consuming autotrophs or heterotrophs, or by eating milk or meat or eating compost called decomposer
Binary Fission
Bacteria reproduces through this process in which one cell divides to form 2 identical cells