Characteristics
Good Bacteria
Vocabulary
How they do it
Potpourri
100
Whiplike tails that move bacteria.
What is flagellum?
100
Bacteria that recycle nutrients.
What are saprophytes?
100
An organism that produces diseases.
What is pathogen?
100
Bacteria in plant roots used to help the plant get nitrogen.
What are nitrogen-fixing bacteria?
100
Spiral shaped bacteria.
What are spirilla?
200
Bacteria found in harsh environments.
What is archaebacteria?
200
Using bacteria to breakdown wastes and pollutants.
What is bioremediation.
200
Organisms that can live without oxygen.
What are anaerobes?
200
Bacterial reproduction by splitting cells.
What is fission?
200
Organisms that use oxygen for respiration.
What are aerobes?
300
Bacterial that get energy from dead material.
What is a saprophyte?
300
A drug made from bacteria to kill other bacteria.
What is an antibiotic?
300
One celled organisms without membrane-bound organelles.
What are bacteria?
300
Saprophytes break waste down into carbon dioxide and this molecule.
What is water?
300
Used to breakdown wastes in bioremediation.
What is bacteria?
400
Sphere shaped bacteria.
What is cocci?
400
Helps produce yogurt, cheese, and sauerkraut.
What is bacteria?
400
Thick walled structures around bacteria.
What are endospores?
400
Process used in the food industry to kill harmful bacteria.
What is sterilization?
400
Saprophytes use this as a food and energy source.
What is dead material?
500
Rod-shaped bacteria.
What are bacilli?
500
Solution made from dead or damaged bacteria that is used to prevent diseases.
What is vaccine?
500
The capsule that surrounds a pathogen.
What is endospore
500
Growths on some plants that help process nitrogen.
What are nodules?
500
Bacteria produces it's own food by photosynthesis.
What is Cyanobacteria?
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