Question | Answer |
Antibiotic | is chemical substance that kill or slow the growth of bacteria |
Asexual Reproduction | is the reproducing of a living thing from only 1 parent |
Bacteria | is very small one-celled monerans |
Biotechnology | is the use of living things to solve practical problems |
Blue - green bacteria | is small, one-celled monerans that contain chlorophyll and can make their own food |
Capsule | is a sticky outer layer produced by bacteria |
Colony | a group of similar cells growing next to each other that do not depend on each other |
Communicable disease | those that can be passed from one organism to another |
Decomposer | living things that get their food from breaking down dead matter into simpler chemicals |
Endospore | a thick wall structure that forms inside a bacterial cell |
Fission | the process of one organism dividing into two organisms |
Flagellum | a whip-like thread used for movement by bacteria |
Host | an organism that provides food for a parasite |
Interferon | is a chemical substance that interferes with the way viruses reproduce |
Koch’s Postulates | steps for providing that a disease is caused by a certain microscopic organism |
Parasite | in organism that lives in or on another living thing and gets food from it |
Pasteurization | the process of heating milk to kill harmful bacteria |
Saprophytes | organisms that use dead materials for food |
Vaccines | substances made from weakened or dead virus that protect you against certain diseases |
Virus | a chromosome like part surrounded by a protein coat |