Chapter 7 Flashcards
Flagella
Bacteria with long whiplike structures
Archaea
Very extreme living like in a volcano in a hot spring
What are the three different shapes of a cell?
Round rod spiral
How do cells get energy
They make and can consume energy
Fission
A cell divided into two identical cells
Conjugation
Two bacteria of the same species witch combine their genetic materials
Endospore
Form when bacteria builds build a thick wall
1 reason why bacteria is good
Helps digest food in both human and animals
Decomposition
The breaking down of dead organisms
Nitrogen fixation
All the bacteria in the soil
Bioremediation
The use of organisms such as bacteria to clean up environmental pollution
Pathogens
Agents that cause diseases
Antibiotics
Are Medicines that stop the growth and replication of bad bacteria
Antibiotics
Are medicines that stop the growth and replication of bacteria
Pasteurization
Is a process of heating food to a temperature that kills most bacteria
Virus
Is a strand of DNA or RNA surrounded by a layer of protein that can effect and replicate in a host cell
Mutations
Enable viruses to adjust to changes
Are viruses alive? Why
No doesn’t have careirestics of living things
Antibody
Is a protein that can attach to a pathogen that makes it useless
Vaccine
A mixture containing material from one or more deactivated pathogens
Bacteria
Microscopic prokaryotes