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JEOPARDY. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Oudemansiella_nocturnum.JPG. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:SalmonellaNIAID.jpg. Answer. Contains DNA and can make proteins but contains no membrane-bound organelles. Question. What are bacteria?. Answer.
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JEOPARDY http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Oudemansiella_nocturnum.JPG http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:SalmonellaNIAID.jpg
Answer • Contains DNA and can make proteins but contains no membrane-bound organelles.
Question • What are bacteria?
Answer • Consists of a nucleic acid usually surrounded by a protein coat.
Question • What is a virus?
Answer • Made of protein only.
Question • What is a prion?
Answer • Secretes enzymes and digests food outside its cells. We eat the fruiting bodies of some species.
Question • What are fungi?
Answer • Single-celled eukaryotes. Members of this group do not easily fit into other kingdoms.
Question • What are protists?
Answer • Responsible for rising bread and brewing beer.
Question • What is yeast?
Double JEOPARDY http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Laurencia.jpg http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Paramecium.jpg • How much do you wish to wager? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Collapsed_tree_labels_simplified.png
Double JEOPARDY Answer • Source of the atmospheric oxygen on early earth.
Double JEAPORDY Question • What is cyanobacteria?
Answer • Responsible for the production of vitamin K in the human colon.
Question • What is bacteria (E. coli)?
Answer • Exists in a symbiotic relationship with coral performing photosynthesis. Damaged when coral reefs are “bleached.”
Question • What are algae?
Answer • Role that bacteria play in the nodules of some plants which provides an essential nutrient.
Question • What is nitrogen fixation?
Answer • Three cell shapes used to distinguish bacteria.
Question • What are round (cocci), rod (bacillus), and spiral (spirochete)?
Answer • Stain used to distinguish bacterial cell wall structures.
Question • What is gram stain?
Answer • Structure responsible for movement in bacteria.
Question • What is a flagellum?
Answer • Tube through which “male” DNA is transferred to a “female” strain in conjugation.
Question • What is a pilus?
Answer • Bacterial structure which aids in survival in adverse conditions.
Question • What is an endospore?
Answer • Caused by a protist and spread by mosquitoes. Sickle cell carriers are less likely to contract this deadly disease.
Question • What is malaria?
Answer • Spread by deer ticks and is named after a town in Connecticut.
Question • What is Lyme disease.
Can be carried on improperly cleaned uncooked food and causes illness in humans (and sometimes death). Recent cases linked to eating raw tomatoes and/or hot peppers.
Question • What is E. coli O157;H7
Answer • Disease that causes the most deaths world-wide. Spread through the air through coughing.
Question • What is Tuberculosis?
Answer • Scientists used to think this stomach disease was caused by stress. Recently discovered that it is caused by a bacterium, H. pylori.
Question • What are ulcers?
Answer • The causative agent for AIDS.
Question • What is HIV?
Answer • The name for transfer of DNA between bacteria.
Question • What is horizontal gene transfer (HGT: transformation, conjugation, or transduction)?
Answer • Disease that can be caused by eating improperly canned food. Disease is caused by a toxin made by the bacteria. Injection of this toxin is used to remove wrinkles.
Question • What is botulism?
Answer • Process where naked DNA is transferred into a bacterium. This method is used to make recombinant DNA clones.
Question • What is transformation?