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When DNA is accidentally picked up from a bacterium by a bacterial virus (phage) and transferred to another bacterium, this is called _________.

Which of these diseases is believed to have been completely eradicated due to vaccination programs?

In food production, the gelling and thickening agents agar and carrageenan are harvested from _____.

If you have 54 viral plaques on your plate (see picture), which you plated by mixing a 200 microliter volume of viruses with host cells, how many viruses per mL do you have in the tube from which you took the 200 microliter?      

Which of these bacteria is the causative agent of stomach ulcers?

The term for a viral infection that becomes dormant in a particular tissue and then recurs periodically is _______.

Which of the following is NOT a method of growing animal viruses?

Chlamydia trachomatis is transmitted as a(n) _____ that can survive briefly outside of host cells.

Which of the following lists the correct sequence in the formation of a sedimentary rock?

Multiple plutons can coalesce (merge) to form a(n) ________.