Microbiology Study Guide

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What is the difference between prokaryotic and eukaryotic?

What 4 things do ALL of cells have?
What is the difference between plant cells and animal cells?
What are the products and reactants of photosynthesis? (hint: write and label the
formula)
5. What are the products and reactants of cellular respiration? (hint: write and label the
formula)
6. Where does cellular respiration take place?
7. Where does photosynthesis take place?
8. What is the difference between osmosis and diffusion?
9. What are some differences between viruses and bacteria?
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What are characteristics of organisms in the Protists Kingdom?
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What are the different ways organisms in the Kingdom Protists move?
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What is an example of an infectious disease? A non infectious disease?
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What are some examples of vectors and what diseases are carried by vectors?
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What are some concerns with the overuse of antibiotics and hand sanitizers?
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What are some examples of diseases caused by viruses? Examples of diseases
caused by bacteria?
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What organisms are prokaryotic?
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What is a microbe?
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How do hand sanitizers differ from antibiotics?
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What is the difference between a host and a parasite?
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Why are viruses not considered living things?
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What is a mutagen?
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What is an example of an antibiotic?
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What is the difference between an epidemic and a pandemic?
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Why is the cell membrane considered semipermeable?
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What is the difference between unicellular and multicellular?
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What some ways that diseases are spread?
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What are some ways to prevent the spread of disease?
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