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Bacteria
Science
Question | Answer |
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single-celled organisms that are prokaryotes. | Bacteria |
the region inside the cell membrane. | Cytoplasm |
located in the cytoplasm, these are tiny structures. | ribosomes |
small whip like structure that helps a cell to move. | flagellum |
He was a Dutch merchant who first discovered bacteria in the late 1600's . | Anton von Leeuwenhoek |
The process of breaking down food to release energy. | cellular respirsation |
one cell divides to form two identical cells. | binary fisssion |
during conjugation, one bacterium transfers some of its genetic material into another bacterium through a thin, threadlike bridge. | conjugation |
a small rounded, thick-walled resting cell that forms inside a bacterial cell. | endospore |
during pasteurization, the food is heated to a temperature that is high enough to kill most harmful bacteria without changing the taste of the food. | pasteurization |
organisms that break down large, complex chemicals in dead organisms into small, simple chemicals. | decomposers |