Micro-organisms Flashcards
What is bacteria smaller than
Animal cells
What are viruses smaller than
Bacteria
Name the 4 types of bacteria
1) Spherical
2) comma shaped
3) rod shaped
4) spirals
Give a word for
Organism that is not a plant, animal or fungus
Protista
Name the only unicellular fungus
Yeast
Name all 7 characteristics of life
1) growth
2) respiration
3) nutrition
4) reproduction
5) excretion
6) movement 7) sensitivity and response
True or false
Viruses can only reproduce in living cells
True
What is a pathogen
An organisms that causes disease
Name the 8 transmissions of pathogens
1) water-borne 7) food 8) cross contamination
2) air- borne
3) bites of animals
4) physical contact
5) blood
6) indirect
What diseases will you get from viruses
Polio, rabies, AIDS
What diseases will get from bacteria
TB and cholera
What diseases will you get from fungi
Athletes foot and ringworm
What diseases will you get from Protista
African sleeping sickness and amoebic dysentery
Give ways of preserving food
Drying Smoking Salting Pickling Freezing
What is the virus that causes cervical cancer
Human papilloma virus
Who are the decomposers in our ecosystems
Micro organisms
What do our decomposers do ?
Break down dead plant and animal matter and clean the environment
Who was Edward Jenner
The inventor of smallpox vaccine by injecting a small quantity of pus from a cowpox blister into a little boys arm
Who was Louis Pasteur
He was the man who discovered that you had to boil milk to certain temperature to purify it
Who was Alexander Flemming
He was the man who discovered penicillin
Who was Joseph Lister
The man who realised that he had to sterilise his instruments and himself before surgery
