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vocab

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virus   a tiny nonliving particle that invades and then reproduces inside a living cell  
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host   is a living thing that provides a source of energy for a virus or an organism  
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parasite   organisms that lives on or in a host and causes it harm  
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bacteriophage   viruses that infects bacteria  
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vaccine   a substance introduced into the body to simulate the production of chemicals that destroys specific diasese causing viruses and orgamisms  
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bacteria   are prokaryotes. The material in their cells is not contained in a nucleus. single celled  
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flagellum   a long whiplike structure that helps a cell to move  
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binary fission   in which one cell divides to form two identical cells  
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asexual reproduction   2 parents combine their material to produce a new organism  
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conjugation   one bacterium transfers some genetic material to another bacterium through a threadlike bridge  
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endspore   a small rounded thick-walled resting cells that form inside a bacterial cell  
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pasteurization   food is heated to a temp that is high enough to kill most harmful bacteria without changing the taste  
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decomposer   organisms that break down into large chemicals in dead organisms into small chemicals  
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protist   eukaryotes. that cannot be classified as animals, plants, or fungi  
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protozoan   unicellular can be classified into 4 different groups based on the wat they move  
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pesudopod   false foot. form when cytoplasm flows toward 1 location and the rest of the organisms follows  
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contractile valcuole   a structure that collects the extra water and then expels it from the cell  
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cilia   hairlike projections from cells that move with a wavelike motion  
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symbiosis   a close relationship in which at least 1 of the species benefit  
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mutualism   close relationship between organisms of 2 species in which both organisms benefit  
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algae   extremly diverse and are autotrophs  
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spore   a tiny cell that is able to grow into new oganisms  
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fungi   eukaryotoes that have cell walls are hetotrophs that feed by absorbing food and use spores to reproduce  
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hyphae   threadlike tubes that make up bodies of multicellular fungi  
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budding   unicellular yeast cells undergo a form of asexual reproduction  
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