Vocabulary
An organism that causes disease.
What is a pathogen?
A state at which members of a population die as quickly as new members are born.
What is a steady state?
The part of the cell that can negotiate what materials pass into and out of the cell.
What is plasma membrane ?
These bacteria are spherical in shape.
What are coccus or cocci bacteria ?
Bacteria with no cell walls belong to this phylum.
What is phylum Tenericutes ?
An organism that feeds on dead matter.
What is a saprophyte?
Population growth that is unhindered because of the abundance of resources for an ever increasing population.
What is exponential growth?
The part of the cell that helps it move from one place to another.
What is flagellum ?
These are rod shaped bacteria.
What are Bacillus Bacteria ?
In the six kingdom system kingdom Monera is split into these two kingdoms.
What is kingdom Archaeobacteria and kingdom Eubacteria?
An organism that feeds on a loving host.
What is a parasite?
Population growth that is controlled by limited resources.
What is logistic growth?
Part of the cell that helps them adhere to surfaces as well as to ward off infection fighting agents.
What is the capsule?
These bacteria are helical in shape.
What are spirillum bacteria?
To grow and reproduce, ideal conditions for bacteria include these conditions.
What are moisture, moderate temperatures, nutrition, darkness, and proper amount of oxygen.
An organism that requires oxygen.
What is an aerobic organism?
A temporary union of two organisms for the purpose of DNA transfer.
What is conjugation ?
This is the information that the cell contains to make the cell a living organism.
What is DNA?
This phylum of bacteria is gram positive.
What is phylum Firmiticutes ?
To reduce the chance of bacterial infections you can do these things.
What is heat the food so that most of the bacteria die and then seal it away from fresh air, dehydrate the food, freeze the food, pasteurize the food, and keep it in the fridge ?
An organism that does not require oxygen.
What is an aerobic organism?
A small circular section of extra DNA that confers one or more traits to a bacterium and can be reproduced separately from the main bacterial genetic code.
What is a plasmid ?
This helps hold the DNA and ribosomes in place.
What is cytoplasm?
What is phylum gracilicutes ?
The DNA and other parts of a bacterium are covered with several hard layers.
What is an endospore ?