A short thick appendage that allows a bacterium to attach to another bacterium.
What is a pilus?
100
Bacteria is a ______-celled organism.
What is single-celled?
100
True or False?
Bacterial cells are larger than eukaryotic cells?
What is false. Eukaryotic cells are larger than prokaryotic cells
100
A rod-shaped cell
What is a bacillus?
100
___________ are collections of bacteria in the mouth
What are dental cavities?
200
A substance that can inhibit the growth of or kill some microoganisms.
What is an antibiotic?
200
Bacteria multiply slow/fast.
What is fast?
200
True or False?
Bacteria are single-celled organisms.
Eukaryotes are far more complex.
What is true
200
Yes or No
Are flagellum and pilus the same?
What is no?
200
Cholera is transmitted by...
a) eating collard greens
b) drinking contaminated water
c) getting bit by a flea
d) eating raw food
What is b? Drinking contaminated water
300
A substance that is produced by one organism and is poisonous to other organisms.
What is a toxin?
300
Bacteria can live _________
a) independently
b) as a parasite
c) none
d) both
What is d, both?
300
True or False?
Bacteria is a prokaryote?
What is True?
300
Bacteria can perform________ processes
a) aerobic
b) anaerobic
c) none
d) both
What is both?
300
What are two diseases transmitted from an infected flea?
a) Bubonic plague and Cholera
b) Typhus and Dental Cavities
c) Typhus and Bubonic Plague
d) Lyme Disease and Tuberculosis
What is c? Typhus and Bubonic Plague
400
A thick-walled protective spore forms inside a bacterial cell and resists harsh conditions
What is an endospore?
400
Bacteria are nowhere/everywhere
What is everywhere?
400
True or False?
Only Prokaryotic cells have flagella.
What is false? Eukaryotic cells have flagella too, but they are way more complex than those of prokaryotic cells
400
This in not a part of the bacterial cell structure:
a) nucleus
b) flagellum
c) ribosomes
d) cell membrane
What is a cell membrane?
400
______________ help cure bacterial illnesses
What is an antibiotic?
500
A protective layer of polysaccharides around the cell wall.
What is a capsule?
500
Bacteria is in the Kingdom __________
a) Eubacteria
b) Monera
c) Animalia
What is a, Eubacteria?
500
True or False?
Bacteria reproduce through mitosis.
What is False? Bacteria reproduce through binary fission, and eukaryotes reproduce through mitosis
500
Define a spirillum.
What is a spiral-shaped cell
500
Name one way in which a bacteria can cause a disease
What is metabolzing their host? or Secreting compounds into their environment?