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2nd year Preswex
Microorganisms, Chapter 5
Term | Definition |
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Biodiversity | Describes all the variety of living things |
All livings are grouped into | 5 groups (kingdoms) |
The five kingdoms are | Animals, plants, protists, fungi and bacteria |
invertebrates | have no back bone |
vertebrates | have a backbone |
examples of protists | algae and amoeba |
examples of plants | oak tree, cactus |
examples of fungus | bread mould, mushrooms, athletes foot. |
agar | food to grow bacteria |
petri dish | plastic container where we grow bacteria |
All living things are evolved from | bacteria |
the oldest living things on the planet | bacteria |
how bacteria look in the petri dish | slimey dots, various colours |
negative effects of bacteria | human diseases, spoils food, crop diseases |
positive effects of bacteria | make foods, make antibiotics, break down wastes |
antibiotic resistance | bacteria which cannot be killed using anitbiotics |
antibiotics | chemicals made by microorganisms to kill bacteria |
Microorganisms | tiny living things (bacteria, viruses) |
how to prevent antibiotic resistance | do not treat viruses with antibiotics, finish your course of antibiotics, never take another persons perscribtion |
common viruses | cold sores, flu, chickenpox, common cold |
viruses are larger or smaller than bacteria? | smaller |
parasites | live off living organisms |
vaccination | treatment that protects the body from a disease |