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Compare and contrast bacteria and viruses?
Viruses are considerably smaller then bacteria. Instead of being a living cell able to undergo a life cycle on their own (bacteria can do this), they must take over the cell processes of another cell in order to reproduce. Viruses and bacteria are similar in that they both need a suitable environment to survive. Bacteria and viruses are both pathogenic (disease causing) to humans. Bacteria are killed by antibiotics. While viruses are not.
What is the difference between bacteria and viruses?
Bacteria are single-celled organisms that exist throughout the environment. They live in water, soil, and the air. Bacteria live in and on all animals and plants. Some cause disease, some are beneficial and some have no known impact on the animals they live on or in. Viruses are DNA or RNA, sometimes wrapped in protein coatings. They cannot survive outside a living cell. Viruses cannot reproduce on their own. They use the mechanisms of the living cells they infect to reproduce themselves and in the process they can damage or destroy those cells, causing disease to the animal or plant involved.
What is the difference between saprophytic and parasitic bacteria?
Saprophytic is another way to say decomposers. Parasitic bacteria parasitize other organisms while they feed off of their insides. Saprophytic (decomposers) bacteria feed off of dead organisms and this is extremely important for the cycle of soil nutrients and also for many plant roots.
What carries recombinant dna into bacteria?
A common method to introduce recombinant DNA into bacteria is through a process called transformation. In this process, bacteria are made competent to take up foreign DNA, usually through chemical treatment or electroporation. Once inside the bacteria, the recombinant DNA can replicate and be expressed.
What happens if you use gram stain on a virus?
Most likely nothing. The gram stain will only stain the peptidoglycan cell wall of bacteria. Most viruses have a protein coat called a capsid. The capsid will not take up either the crystal violet or the safranin of a Gram stain.
What is the big difference between viruses and bacteria?
Viruses are replication parasites that can do nothing until they take over a living cell. Bacteria are living cells.
Are viruses much smaller than bacteria?
I think so because viruses usually go inside bacteria and take over the bacteria cell But I'm totally sure
Are viruses much smaller than?
I think so because viruses usually go inside bacteria and take over the bacteria cell But I'm totally sure
What is difference between viral disease and bacterial disease?
One is caused by bacteria and the other is caused by viruses. Only bacterial diseases can be successfully treated with antibiotics. Bacteria are alive, viruses are not. Viruses invade bacteria and take over their properties, including the ability to infect.
Name three of the possible forms pathogens can take?
bacteria, viruses, and fungi.
Why can't antibiotics be used against viruses?
Because viruses are not bacteria. Antibiotics only work on bacteria. (Viruses are not actually alive . . . they enter a bacterium and take control of its function.)
How does the immune response to viruses differ from the immune response to bacteria?
It happens as our body do not have anti-bodies [ means the copy of the virus to make a trap for it ], but in bacterial it is done just by destroying as the bacteria do not conquer a tissue or a cell to make their army.
What virus reproduces in a bacterium?
Bacteriophages (bacteria eaters) are produced by bacteria. Since viruses cannot reproduce on their own, they have to take over the DNA of bacteria to make more of themselves.
Can bacteria in beer make you sick?
BACTERIA release harmful toxins. VIRUSES take over your cells completely and make copies of themselves! : )
Can someone with type 2 diabetes take glucose?
What do you mean, "take glucose"? There's glucose in everything you eat. EVERY diabetic needs to balance the glucose (otherwise known as carbs on nutrition labels) they take in. Type 2 diabetics can manage their blood sugars with diet/exercise and medication. Eating more fiber in your diet might make your need for medication go down.
What effect does an antibiotic have on a viral disease?
Antibiotics don't help against viral diseases, so you shouldn't take them for colds and flus. Antibiotics only help against bacterial diseases, and even then you shouldn't take them w/o knowing which strain of bacteria is it that you have been infected with.
Compare and contrast bacteria and viruses?
Viruses are considerably smaller then bacteria. Instead of being a living cell able to undergo a life cycle on their own (bacteria can do this), they must take over the cell processes of another cell in order to reproduce. Viruses and bacteria are similar in that they both need a suitable environment to survive. Bacteria and viruses are both pathogenic (disease causing) to humans. Bacteria are killed by antibiotics. While viruses are not.
