Beneficial bacteria
A shovelful of soil contains billions of these tiny organisms
What is bacteria?
This part of a bacterium contains the genetic information and is free-floating in the cytoplasm.
What is the DNA?
This is the name for cells that do not have a nucleus, such as bacteria.
What is prokaryote? (No nucleus!)
The bacteria Clostridium botulinum is responsible for this disease.
What is botulism?
This is made from damaged particles from bacterial cell walls or killed bacteria and used to prevent certain diseases
What are vaccines?
This food, made from milk and beneficial bacteria, is sometimes eaten for breakfast with fruit and honey and granola
What is yogurt?
This part of the bacterium is a jelly-like substance found inside the cell.
What is the cytoplasm?
This is a substance used to kill bacteria
What are antibiotics?
This side effect of botulism poisoning is even worse than paralysis.
What is death?
This is how you draw and name spiral shaped bacteria
Draw spirilla
This food, often eaten atop a pizza or alongside ham in a sandwich, is made using beneficial bacteria.
What is cheese?
This part of the bacterium provides locomotion and looks like a whip
What is the flagellum (or flagella)?
This is the heat-resistant structure in bacteria that can protect it for hundreds of years
What is the endospore?
This incredible feature of Clostridium botulinum is why it can survive in low oxygen environments like canned goods.
What is being an anaerobe?
This is how you draw and name spherical shaped bacteria.
Draw cocci bacteria
This food, often drizzled on top of tacos and enchiladas, is made using beneficial bacteria.
What is Mexican crema?
This outmost layer of the bacterium is sometimes present and protects the bacterium from its environment.
What is the gel-like capsule?
This is the name for an organisms that does NOT need oxygen
What is an anaerobe?
This kingdom (and domain!) is where we find amazing single-celled organisms that can survive in extreme environments.
What is archaea?
This is how you draw and name rod-shaped bacteria
Draw bacilli
This process is used to clean up environmental spills by using beneficial bacteria to break down contaminants.
What is bioremediation?
These are present inside the cytoplasm of the bacterium and produce proteins for the bacterium.
What are the ribosomes?
This is the name of the poison produced by pathogens
What is a toxin?
This type of bacteria is probably responsible for much of the oxygen production in Early Earth's atmosphere.
What are cyanobacteria?
This is the name of the scientist who invented the process that makes milk safe to drink.
Who is Louis Pasteur?