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Bacteria
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| What is a single-celled organism that lacks a nucleus? | Bacteria |
| What is the region inside the cell membrane? | Cytoplasm |
| What is the tiny structure located in the cytoplasm? | Ribosomes |
| What is a long , whiplike structure that helps a cell move? | Flagellum |
| What is the process of breaking down food to release energy called? | Cellular Respiration |
| What is the process when bacteria reproduces asexually? | Binary Fission |
| What is the process when bacteria reproduces sexually? | Conjugation |
| What is a small, rounded, thick-walled resting cell that forms inside a bacterial cell? | Endospore |
| What is the process of heating food to a temperature that is high enough to kill most harmful bacteria without changing the taste of the food? | Pasteurization |
| What are organisms that break down large, complex chemicals in dead organisms into small, simple chemicals? | Decomposers |
| What Dutch merchant first discovered bacteria in the late 1600s? | Anton Leeuwenhoek |