Chapter 7 Flashcards

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Flagella

A

Bacteria with long whiplike structures

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Archaea

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Very extreme living like in a volcano in a hot spring

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3
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What are the three different shapes of a cell?

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Round rod spiral

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4
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How do cells get energy

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They make and can consume energy

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5
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Fission

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A cell divided into two identical cells

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6
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Conjugation

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Two bacteria of the same species witch combine their genetic materials

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7
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Endospore

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Form when bacteria builds build a thick wall

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8
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1 reason why bacteria is good

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Helps digest food in both human and animals

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9
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Decomposition

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The breaking down of dead organisms

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10
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Nitrogen fixation

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All the bacteria in the soil

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11
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Bioremediation

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The use of organisms such as bacteria to clean up environmental pollution

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12
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Pathogens

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Agents that cause diseases

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13
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Antibiotics

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Are Medicines that stop the growth and replication of bad bacteria

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14
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Antibiotics

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Are medicines that stop the growth and replication of bacteria

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15
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Pasteurization

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Is a process of heating food to a temperature that kills most bacteria

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16
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Virus

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Is a strand of DNA or RNA surrounded by a layer of protein that can effect and replicate in a host cell

17
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Mutations

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Enable viruses to adjust to changes

18
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Are viruses alive? Why

A

No doesn’t have careirestics of living things

19
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Antibody

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Is a protein that can attach to a pathogen that makes it useless

20
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Vaccine

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A mixture containing material from one or more deactivated pathogens

21
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Bacteria

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Microscopic prokaryotes