Question | Answer |
antibiotics | medicines used to kill bacteria and other microorganisms |
bioremediation | the use of bacteria and other microorganisms to change pollutants in soil and water into harmless chemicals |
cocci | spherical-shaped bacteria |
consumer | organism that obtains its food from other organisms |
decomposer | organism that gets energy by breaking down the remains of dead organisms |
endospores | a bacterium surrounded by a thick,protective membrane |
binary fission | one type of simple cell division that bacteria use to reproduce |
host | an organism that supports a parasite |
lactic acid | type of bacteria that digest the milk sugar lactose |
lytic cycle | the cycle of infection in which more viruses are prodced and the host cell is destroyed |
nitrogen fixing | tyoe of bacteria taht consume nitrogen in the air and change it into a form plants can use |
pathogenic | bacteria that invade a host organism and obtain nutrients from the host's cells |
prokaryote | a cell that lacks a nucleus |
spirilla | long, spiral shaped bacteria |
vaccine | a solution containing a weakened or inactive version of a virus |
virus | a microscopic particle that invades a cell and often destroys it |
lytic cycle steps | 1.) attach to a host cell 2.) Inject the viral (bad) DNA 3.) Make more viral DNA (virus factory) 4.) Cell breaks/bursts |
binary fission steps | 1.) Cell grows 2.) DNA copies 3.) DNA separates 4.) Cell splits |
nitrogen fixing | tyoe of bacteria taht consume nitrogen in the air and change it into a form plants can use |
pathogenic | bacteria that invade a host organism and obtain nutrients from the host's cells |
prokaryote | a cell that lacks a nucleus |
spirilla | long, spiral shaped bacteria |
vaccine | a solution containing a weakened or inactive version of a virus |
virus | a microscopic particle that invades a cell and often destrys it |
lytic cycle steps | 1.) attach to a host cell 2.) Inject the viral (bad) DNA 3.) Make more viral DNA (virus factory)4.) Cell breaks/bursts |
binary fission steps | 1.)Cell grows 2.) DNA copies 3.) DNA seperates 4.) Cell splits |