Cell Structures
This whip-like structure helps cells move through liquid.
What is a flagellum?
This process is how bacteria divide into two identical cells.
What is binary fission?
Viruses are generally considered this because they cannot reproduce on their own.
What are non-living?
This protist is a mixotroph that can photosynthesize and eat food.
What is Euglena?
Organisms that can both photosynthesize and consume food.
What are mixotrophs?
These structures allow amoeba-like organisms to move and capture food.
What are pseudopods?
This resistant bacterial structure forms during harsh conditions.
What is an endospore?
In this viral cycle, the host cell bursts after viral replication.
What is the lytic cycle?
These protists include diatoms and brown algae.
What is Stramenopila?
Organisms that require oxygen to survive.
What are obligate aerobes?
This structure stores DNA in eukaryotic cells.
What is the nucleus?
This bacterium causes tetanus.
What is Clostridium tetani?
In this cycle, viral DNA inserts into the host genome and stays dormant.
What is the lysogenic cycle?
This protist group includes amoebas and slime molds.
Organisms that cannot survive in oxygen.
What are obligate anaerobes?
Prokaryotes typically have this shape of DNA.
What is circular DNA?
This bacterium causes Lyme disease.
What is Borrelia burgdorferi?
Viruses must infect this type of structure in order to replicate.
What is a host cell?
These protists often have shell-like skeletons and use pseudopods.
What are Rhizaria?
Microorganisms used to clean up pollution such as oil spills.
What is bioremediation?
This type of skeleton made of silica is found in radiolarians and diatoms.
What is a silica shell?
This bacterium causes anthrax and forms endospores.
What is Bacillus anthracis?
These scientific rules help identify which microbe causes a disease.
What are Koch’s postulates?
This supergroup includes animals, fungi, and choanoflagellates.
What are Opisthokonts?
Organisms that live in extreme environments like hot vents or salty lakes.
What are extremophiles?