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Welcome! This listing features a four-page review packet about microbiology. I created it and annually assign it in my high school biology class.

The review packet is divvied into the following sections.

1. Identify whether the medical conditions are caused by a virus or by a bacterium

2. Short answer

Define the term pathogen
Identify a specified number of ways bacteria are classified
Identify a specified number of ways viruses are classified
Identify five reasons why viruses are not considered to be living
List four ways bacteria are good for the environment, benefit society commercially, or help us in a mutualistic symbiotic relationship

3. Bacterial morphology

Identify the five primary shapes of bacteria
Identify the three main colony arrangements of bacteria
Write the English meaning of eight Latin root words relating to bacterial shape or colony arrangement
Sketch the appearance of the eight Latin root words defined

4. General information profiling viruses.

This section entails a series of questions about the viral reproductive lytic cycle, from the scope and sequence to identifying the organelles viruses brainwash during certain stages. I also ask students about the macromolecules that make up viral structure in addition to the importance of the base plate.

5. Bioterrorism

Define bioterrorism, identify biological weapons terrorists might use, and explain why would terrorists chose this mode of weaponry verses conventional warfare. Assuming there is a shortage of vaccines, predict what might happen if there ever was a smallpox outbreak in the United States.

6. Bacterial classification

Identify the kingdoms and domains of bacteria
Identify the three types of archaea and state the environments in which they prefer to live
Classify bacteria by modes of breathing
Classify bacteria by modes of nutrition
Describe the structural and staining difference between a Gram-positive bacterium and a Gram-negative bacterium

7. Antibiotic resistance

General questions about the growing problem of antibiotic resistance

8. Draw and label a generic cross-section of a bacterium and a virus, where students include specified, listed structures for each.

I provided a complete key with the answers in bold red font.

This PDF document will become editable upon conversion to Microsoft Word using an Adobe Acrobat Reader DC program.

This document complements the following activities in my store.

Bacteria Homework Quiz
Bacteria Classification by Mode of Nutrition and Gas Exchange Worksheet
Classification of Bacteria Concept Map/Graphic Organizer
Bacterial Shape and Colony Naming and Drawing Worksheet
Protist, Fungi, Bacteria and Virus Tournament Bracket Challenge

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