Terms Flashcards
What is a microbe?
Microscopic living organisms, usually single celled
What is a virus?
Cell attacker
What is bacterium/bacteria?
Simple, single celled living organism
What is a fungus/fungi?
Single celled or made of threads
What is a protist?
Single celled animals, plants (algae) and seaweed
What is a colony?
Dots on an agar plate made of millions of microbe cells
What are infections
Diseases caused by microbes
What does mucus do?
Traps dirt and bacteria in your lungs
What is a pathogen?
Microbe causing disease
What is cilia?
Tiny hairs on lung cell surface that move mucus
What is an immune system?
Protects body against pathogens
What is an agar plate?
Dish filled with agar jelly, containing food for microbes