| HIV | | An infectious disease of dogs, cats, and other animals, transmitted to humans by the bite of an infected animal |
| PATHOGEN | | Cycle of viral infection; results in virus replication and cell destruction |
| AIDS | | an acute viral disease marked by inflammation of nerve cells of the brain stem and spinal cord |
| BACTERIA | | Scientific name for the Flu |
| ENVELOPE | | Dormant bacterial cell enclosed by tough coating that is highly resistant to environmental stress |
| ANTIBIOTIC | | Infectious disease agent in plants composed of single strand of RNA with no capsid |
| PILUS | | Virus that infects bacteria. |
| CONJUGATION | | Gelatinous outer layer enclosing many bacterial cell walls |
| SPIRILLUM | | Term for processes that do not require oxygen. |
| CHICKENPOX | | Protein sheath that surrounds nucleic acid core in a virus |
| AEROBIC | | illnes that causes red spots to appear and persons face |
| EMERGING VIRUS | | An acute, highly contagious, febrile disease, caused by the variola virus, and characterized by a pustular eruption that often leaves permanent pits or scars: |
| INFLUENZA | | Virus that evolves geographically isolated area and is pathogenic to humans |
| MAD COW | | Chemical compound excreted into environment by bacteria harmful to eukaryotic cells |
| CAPSID | | Infectious particles composed of protein with no nucleic acid |
| RABIES | | A disease causing agent |
| BACILLUS | | One-celled organisms, spherical, spiral, or rod-shaped and appearing singly or in chains. |
| COLD | | Spiral shaped bacteria |
| SMALLPOX | | Viral DNA which inserts into host cells cromosome |
| ENDOSPORE | | Act of DNA making copies of itself |
| CAPSULE | | Disease that eats at cows brain and kills it |
| LYSOGENIC CYCLE | | Outer layer covering many kinds of viruses |
| REPLICATION | | Strand of nucleic acidencased in protein coat that can infect cells and replicate within them |
| POLIO | | Protein with carbohydrate molecuels attatched |
| PRION | | Rod shaped bacterium. |
| VIROID | | Short thick overgrowth of bacterium that allows it to attach to another bacterium |
| TOXIN | | illness that cause head ache, nasal congestion, and soar throat |
| VIRUS | | Infectious virus that causes AIDS |
| GLYCOPROTEIN | | Temporary union of two organisms to exchange nuclear material |
| ANAEROBIC | | Term for processes that require oxygen. |
| PROVIRUS | | Disease caused by infection by HIV that causes depressed immune system |
| BACTERIOPHAGE | | Chemical used as drug to kill bacteria. |
| LYTIC CYCLE | | Cycle in which viral genome replicates as provirus without destroying host cell |
