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Science- 1 sem
Chapter 8 definitions- Bacteria
Term | Definition |
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flagellum | A whip like tail on bacteria and protists that helps them move in a moist enviroment. |
fission | A type of asexual reproduction used by bacteria in which one bacterium divides to form two celles with identical genetic material. |
aerobe | An organism that must have oxygen to survive. |
anaerobe | An organism that can survive with out oxygen. |
saprophyte | Any organism that uses dead materail as a food and energy source. |
nitrogen- fixing bacteria | Bacteria that change nitrogen in the air into nitrogen compounds that are useful to plants and animals. |
pathogen | Any organism that produces disease. |
antibiotic | A substance produced by an organism that is used to kill or inhibit another organism. |
vaccine | A solution made from damaged virus or bacteria particles or from killed or weakened viruses or bacteria; can prevent, not cure, many viral and bacterial diseases. |
toxin | A poison produced by disease- causeing organisims (pathogens). |
endospore | A thick- walled structure that some bacteria produce around themselves, especially for protection from heat and drought. |
antiobiotic resistance | In bacteria, the evolutionary change that occures when bacterial strains that are mostly killed by a specific drug mutate into strains that are not affected by that drug. |
flaggium | whip like tail |