bacteria and viruses

Question 1

bactirium

Answer 1

microscopic prokaryote

Question 2

conjugation

Answer 2

2 bacteria of the same species join together

Question 3

endospore

Answer 3

bacterium with a thick inner wall around chromosome an part of cytoplasm

Question 4

fission

Answer 4

cell division

Question 5

flagellum

Answer 5

whip like thing that helps cell move

Question 6

antibiotic

Answer 6

medicine that stops bacteria growth

Question 7

bioremediation

Answer 7

use of organisms to clean

Question 8

decomposition

Answer 8

breaking down of waste

Question 9

nitrogen fixation

Answer 9

turning atmospheric nitrogen into nitrogen compounds

Question 10

pasteurization

Answer 10

heating food to kill bacteria

Question 11

pathogen

Answer 11

disease agent

Question 12

resistance

Answer 12

defence against disease

Question 13

antibody

Answer 13

protein that attaches to pathogen to make it useless

Question 14

immunity

Answer 14

resistance of organism to pathogen

Question 15

mutation

Answer 15

change in dna/rna

Question 16

vaccine

Answer 16

mixture with deactivated pathogen

Question 17

virus

Answer 17

strand of dna or rna surrounded by protein layer that can infect and replicate in a host cell