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SERMS Bacteria Unit
Vocabulary
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| A pathogen found in raw chicken, raw milk, healthy cattle and non-chlorinated water | Campylobacter |
| A common pathogen found in ground beef, contaminated fruits and vegetables | E. Coli |
| A rod-shaped bacteria of the genus Shigella that can cause dysentery | Shigella |
| Bacteria that makes you sick by attacking other living things | Pathogen |
| Any illness you get from food | Foodborne illness |
| Very small single cell organisms | Bacteria |
| A helpful bacteria that makes cheese, yogurt, and buttermilk and produces vitamins in your intestines | Lactobacillus |
| A common pathogen found in raw meats, poultry, eggs, sprouts, fruits and vegetables | Salmonella |
| Each clump of growth found on a Petri plate | Bacteria colony |
| Round shaped bacteria | Cocci |
| A common pathogen found in deli foods, lunch meats, smoked fish and vegetables | Listeria |
| A helpful bacteria that makes pickles and sauerkraut | Leuconostoc |
| A helpful bacteria that makes pepperoni, salami, and summer sausages | Pediococcus |
| Lets some things in and keeps other things out. It includes a cell wall and plasma membrane | Cell capsule |
| To count off one by one | Enumerate |
| Rod shaped bacteria | Bacilli |
| The liquid material outside the nucleus where the other parts of the cell are found and formed | Cytoplasm |
| Proteins attached to the cell surface that are used to help the cell move around. | Flagella |
| A region that contains a single circular chromosome | Nucleoid |
| The make proteins. They are found on the outer part of the endoplasmic reticulum | Ribosomes |
| Typically, they are circular double-stranded DNA molecules separate from the chromosomal DNA | Plasmids |
| Hairlike structures on the surface of a cell that connect the bacterium to another of its species and build a bridge between the cytoplasm of either cell so that plasmids can be exchanged | Pili |
| A sever and sometimes fatal food poisoning caused by ingestion of food containing botulin | Botulism |
| Acute infectious disease of the small intestine, caused by the bacterium Vibrio cholerae | Cholera |
| An infectious disease of warm-blooded animals caused by a spore-forming bacterium transmissible to humans, especially by the handling of infected products | Anthrax |
| A communicable disease marked especially by fever, diarrhea, headache and intestinal inflammation and caused by a bacterium (Salmonella typhi) | Typhoid fever |
| An infectious disease of humans and domestic anmimals characterized by an onset of fever, chills, sweats, pains and aches caused by the bacteria brucella | Brucellosis |
| They make proteins | Ribosomes |