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When microbes live independently but cooperate and share nutrients, it is called ____________.

Viral DNA must penetrate the ________ and travel to the _______ to successfully initate disease in the host.

What structures are used by bacteriophages to attach to host cell receptors?  

_________blank is a control method that removes microorganisms rather than inhibiting or killing them.

In general, most DNA viruses multiply in the host cell’s _____, while most RNA viruses multiply in the host cell’s _____.  

Choose the phase of the bacterial growth curve during which a bacterial population has the shortest doubling time.

All microbicidal agents are sterilants.

Viruses that infect bacterial cells are known as ________. 

Desiccation is a form of physical control of microorganisms that can be used in moist or dry forms.

Surfactants work by ____________.