12a quiz Flashcards
testing bacteria using dye
gram staining
turns purple: more peptidoglycan
gram positive
control bacteria by killing them and slowing their growth
antibiotics
keeps bacterium from drying out: slimy blanket
capsule
genetic material in a bacterium: in the nucleoid
bacterium transfering plasmids with each other
conjugation
autotrophic bacteria that go through photosynthesis
archea share characteristics with eukaryots but are prokaryotic
neat
most common form of bacterial reproduction
binary fission
type of archea that produce gas
mathonogens
archea that like acid
acidophiles
is related to bacteriophage or smth idk
transduction
virus that infects bacteria
bacteriophage
good bacteria that live in the guts
microbiome
bacteria that cause disease
pathogen
bacteria that live in your body until your immune system becomes weak
opprotunistic pathogen