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Masmol Chapter 1
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| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Microorganism | a very small organism that can only be seen with a microscope |
| kingdom | one of six large groupings of living things that have common charecteristics |
| binary fission | a form of asexual reproduction |
| virus | a nonliving disease-causing particle that uses the material inside cells to make copies of itself |
| bacteria | a large group of one celled organisms that can cause disease |
| archaea | single celled organisms with nuclei than can survive |
| producer k | an organism that captures energy from sunlight |
| decomposer | an organism that feeds on dead plants and animals |
| parasite | an organism that absorbs nutrients from the body of another organism |
| host cell | a cell that a virus infects and uses to make copies of itself |
| algae | protists that live mostly in water and use sunlight as a source of energy |
| plankton | mostly microscopic organisms that drift in great numbers through bodies of water |
| protoza | animal like protists that eat other organisms |
| parasites | bacteria that cause infection |
| rotovirus | viruse that contains DNA but do not grow |
| organisms | a living thing , made up of one or many cells |
| multicellular | bacteria with multiple cells |
| Spiral bacteria | bacteria accurs in single strands |
| rod bacteria | bacteria that occur singly or in chains |
| round bacteria | bacteria that may occur singly or in pairs,chains, or clusters |