Bacteria Flashcards

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1
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Are Bacteria prokaryotes or eukaryotes?

A

Bacteria are Prokaryotes

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2
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What temperature do bacteria like?

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37degrees celcius

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Why can bacteria be good?

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They can help the ecosystem and if non-dangerous ones infiltrate your body, they can take up space that dangerous ones can’t.

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4
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Average size of bacteria is?

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2 micrometres long

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5
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bacteria cell structure?

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flagellum
ribosomes
cytoplasm
cell wall

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bacteria cell structure?

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flagellum
ribosomes 
cytoplasm
cell wall
sometimes a plasmid
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Why can bacteria be bad?

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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.

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8
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How long have there been bacteria?

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More than 3.5billion years old

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9
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How many bacteria are there in a gram of bacteria?

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40 million

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10
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When where Bacteria discovered?

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Around 1674-1676 by Antoni van Leeuwenhoek, helped by Robert Hooke.

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