bacteria/viruses Word Scramble
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antibiotic | a chemical that kills bacteria or slows their growth without harming body cells |
autotroph | an organism that makes its own food |
bacteriophage | a virus that infects bacteria |
binary fission | a form of asexual reproduction in which one cell divides to form two identical cells |
cyanbacteria | also called blue-green alage |
endospore | a small rounded thick-walled resting cells that form inside a bacteria cell |
epidemic | where there is an infectious diease that spreads quickly through a population |
parasite | organisms that live on or in a host and causes it harm |
pasteurization | a process of heating food to a temperature that is high enough to kill most harmful bacteria without changing the taste of the food |
protein coat | protects the virus |
decomposer | an organism that breaks down chemicals from wastes and dead organisms and returns important materials to the soil and the water |
symbiotic relationship | a mutually beneficial relationship between two organisms |
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