Misc.
Characteristics of bacteria
Archaebacteria/
Eubacteria
harmful bacteria
helpful bacteria
100
Nonobes
What is Earth's smallest living things?
100
prokaryotic
What is a bacterial cell classified as since it does not contain a membrane-bound nucleus
100
cyanobacteria
what type of eubacteria makes it's own food using carbon dioxide, water and energy from sunlight? this is found in oceans, lakes, and ponds
100
pathogen
What is an organism that causes disease?
100
saprophyte
What is an organism that uses dead organisms as food and energy sources?
200
penicillin
What is a well-known antibiotic
200
bacilli, cocci, spirilla
What are the three basic shaped bacteria called?
200
aerobe
What is a bacteria that uses oxygen for respiration?
200
vaccine
What is made from damaged particles taken from bacterial cell walls or from killed bacteria? used to prevent some bacterial diseases?
200
antibiotics
What is bacteria producing chemicals that limit the growth of other bacteria called?
300
pasteurization
What is the process of heating foodto a temperature that kills most harmful bacteria but causes little change in the taste of the food?
300
fission
by what means do most bacterial cells reproduce by
300
anaerobe
What is a bacteria that is adapted to live without oxygen called?
300
toxins
What is poisonous substances produced by some bacterial pathogens?
300
vitamin K
What does some of the good bacteria in your intestines make?
400
methane gas
What is released by certain bacteria and can be used as a fuel?
400
flagella
what is the whiplike tail that helps bacteria move?
400
bacteria
one-celled organisms that are almost everywhere in the world: on you, in the air, in foods,and drink on things you touch
400
botulism
What is a type of food poisoning caused by toxin producing bacterium?
400
nitrogen-fixing bacteria
What changes nitrogen in the air into forms that plants and animals can use?
500
yogurt
What is a milk-based food in which bacteria is used in the production of?
500
Antonie van Leeuwenhoek
Who is the Dutch merchant who discovered bacteria in the later 17th century
500
archaebacteria
What is bacteria that grows in extreme conditions
500
endospores
What is bacteria that is enabled to adapt to harsh enviornments?
500
bioremediation
What is bacteria used to clean up or remove environmental pollutants?
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