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Penicillin

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Alexander Fleming found penicillin

Howard Florey produced it 10 years later.

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Different types of fungi

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Mushrooms
Moulds
Yeasts

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Fungal diseases

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Tinea
Thrush
Ring worm

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Examples of protists

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Euglena
Amoeba
Paracemium
Giardia
Cryptospiridium
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Viral diseases

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Measles
Influenza
Chicken pox
Polio 
AIDS
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What environment do bacteria like to live in?

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Warm moist places

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Where do protists like to live?

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Water or high moist areas

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4 main groups of microbes

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Bacteria
Virus
Fungi
Protists

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Structure of bacteria

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Cell wall
Cell membrane
Cytoplasm
Flagellum

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What shapes can bacteria be?

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Cocci
Bacilli
Spiralla

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Light microscops

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Can magnify from 40-400 times and can view live specimens.

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Electron microscope

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Can magnify from 10000 to 100000 times and CANNOT view live specimens.

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Breaking off

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Mould

When bits of hyphae break off.

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Releasing spores

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Mushrooms

When the sporangium matures and bursts, it releases spores into the air.

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Budding

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Yeast
Parent cell forms a bud on the outer surface then transfers a copy of everything in the bud. A cell wall forms between the bud and the parent cell and the bud breaks off becoming a daughter cell.

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Invasion

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Viruses

The virus attacks a host cell by destroying its cell wall.

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Binary fission

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Protists and bacteria

The cell breaks into two smaller cells and in each cell is a copy of the instructions to produce new cells.

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Structure of mushroom

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Sporangium grows upwards from hyphae.

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Structure of mould

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Produce furry, thread like structures called hyphae.

New fungi can grow from broken bits of hyphae.

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Structure of virus

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DNA or RNA (a chemical containing instructions to produce new virus particles) coated in protein.

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Micrometre

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1.0 x 10 -6 m

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Nanometre

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1.0 x 10 -9 m

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What can protists be classified as?

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Flagellates
Ciliates
Amoeba
Sporozoans

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Aerobic respiration

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Glucose+oxygen=carbon dioxide+water+energy

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Anaerobic respiration

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Glucose=alcohol+carbon dioxide+energy

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What can protists be classified as?

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Flagellates
Ciliates
Amoeba
Sporozoans

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