Types of Bacteria
Vocabulary
Classifications of Pathogenic Bacteria
Bacterial Growth and Reproduction
Bacterial Infections
100
nonpathogenic bacteria
What are helpful or harmless unicellular microorganisms?
100
toxin
What is a poisonous substance produced by some microorganisms?
100
cocci
What are round-shaped bacteria that appear singly or in staphylococci, streptococci, or diplococci?
100
active or vegetative stage
What is the stage in which bacteria grow and develop?
100
infection
What is it called when body tissues are invaded by pathogenic bacteria?
200
pathogenic bacteria
What are harmful unicellular microorganisms?
200
bacteriology
What is the science that deals with the study of microorgansms called bacteria?
200
diplococci
What are spherical bacteria that grow in pairs and cause diseases like pneumonia?
200
mitosis
What is asexual cell division?
200
pus
What is a fluid product of inflammation?
300
saprophytes
What are nonpathogenic bacteria living on dead matter?
300
virology
What is the study of viruses and viral diseases?
300
bacilla
What are short, rod-shaped bacteria?
300
daughter cells
What are new cells formed by mitosis?
300
local infection
What is an infection that is confined to one area of the body?
400
parasites
What are organisms that feed off other organisms?
400
infectious
What is"communicable from one person to another"?
400
spirilla
What are spiral or corkscrew-shaped bacteria?
400
inactive or spore-forming stage
What is the stage in which certain bacteria form sphericl spores with tough outer coverings?
400
general infection
What is an infection carried by the bloodstream to all parts of the body?
500
germs
What is a synonym for disease-causing bacteria?
500
virus
What is a microscopic, infectious agent that penetrates cells and becomes part of them?
500
staphylococci
What are pus-forming bacteria?
500
stage under favorable conditions
What is the active or vegetative stage?
500
contagious
What is a synonym for communicable?
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