Bacteria Flashcards
Are Bacteria prokaryotes or eukaryotes?
Bacteria are Prokaryotes
What temperature do bacteria like?
37degrees celcius
Why can bacteria be good?
They can help the ecosystem and if non-dangerous ones infiltrate your body, they can take up space that dangerous ones can’t.
Average size of bacteria is?
2 micrometres long
bacteria cell structure?
flagellum
ribosomes
cytoplasm
cell wall
bacteria cell structure?
flagellum ribosomes cytoplasm cell wall sometimes a plasmid
Why can bacteria be bad?
Bacteria infiltrate your body and either you can’t defend and the bacteria make you sick until it is dealt with or your body fights the bacteria which makes you temporarily tired and sick.
How long have there been bacteria?
More than 3.5billion years old
How many bacteria are there in a gram of bacteria?
40 million
When where Bacteria discovered?
Around 1674-1676 by Antoni van Leeuwenhoek, helped by Robert Hooke.