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A protein that prevents an infection in the body
What is an antibody?
What bacteria need oxygen to survive?
Everywhere; your skin, mouth, desk, home, etc...
Where do bacteria live?
Whip-like tails bacteria use to move
What is flagella?
What is decomposition?
A strand of DNA or RNA surrounded by a layer of protein that can infect and replicate in a host cell
What is a virus?
Yogurts, cheeses, pickles, and vinegar
What are some foods bacteria are used to make?
Harmful bacterial agents that cause disease.
What are pathogens?
Fission
How do bacteria reproduce?
When you eat food contaminated by harmful bacteria
What causes food poisoning?
A mixture containing material from one or more deactivated pathogens
What is a vaccine?
Microscopic unicellular prokaryotes
What are bacteria?
-Through the food you eat
-Through a cut on your skin
-Through the air you breathe
How can bacteria enter your body?
-Sphere (Round)
-Spiral
-Rod
What are the basic shapes of bacteria?
Conversion of nitrogen into a useable form for plants and animals to use
What is nitrogen-fixation?
No, most bacteria are beneficial
78%
What percent of our atmosphere is made up of nitrogen gas?
A drug used to stop the growth and spread of bacteria
What is an antibiotic?
Anaerobic bacteria
What bacteria can live without oxygen?
Bacteria cleans up the environment in general like pollution and sewage
What is bioremediation?
They trigger the production of antibodies.
What do vaccines do?
-they make it themselves
-dead organic waste and organisms
-living hosts
What are ways bacteria obtain energy?
The transfer of DNA between two bacteria
What is conjugation?
Thick slime-like walls that are produced by some bacterial pathogens and give protection in extreme conditions
What are endospores?
Pasteurization
What is a way to treat bacteria in food to make it safer to eat?