Micro Organisms Flashcards
What is a micro organism?
A type of organism like bacteria, fungus and virus
What do they do?
1.sustain itself using a human host with pathogen
2.Reproduce pathogen
3.Colonise pathogen
4.Harmless or harmful
What is bacteria like?
Pneumonia
What is virus like?
Covid 19
What is fungi like?
Athlete’s foot
What shape is bacteria?
Shape of a tennis ball, spheres aka Cocci, rods aka Bacilli and spiral
What shape is virus?
a pin
What shape is fungi?
a cotton wool
How can fungi reproduce?
asexually or sexually
How can virus produce?
they cannot reproduce
How can bacteria reproduce?
by themselves
How does a contagious diesease spread?
By DIRECT contact like share of blood or bodily fluids
How does a infectious diesease spread?
By AIR (kinda) etc sneezing, coughing
What those black grey things called on a fungi?
Spores
Our body stops microbes from entering our bodies y?
making scabs