Vocabulary
Living organism that is not visible by the naked eye
What is a Microbe?
2020 pandemic that had people locked into their homes and transitioned to virtual school/workplace
What is COVID-19?
The instructions of all life
What is DNA?
This device allowed Robert Hooke to discover what he called "cells"
What is the Microscope?
This is considered the most studied bacteria
What is E. coli?
Process that kills off ALL bacteria (even endospores)
What is Sterilization?
~2015 pandemic that originated from West Africa and eventually spread to Texas
What is Ebola?
This structure is missing in Bacteria but found in Eukaryotes
What is the Nucleus?
What is Penicillin?
This is a symbiosis between a fungi and an algae
What is a Lichen?
Microbe that is still highly debated if it is living or not
What are Viruses?
1980's epidemic of an incurable disease that leaves people vulnerable to other diseases
What is HIV/AIDS?
Formed when certain bacteria are introduced to stressors from the environement
What is an Endospore?
This staining process allows us to distinguish microbes from their cell wall
What is Gram Stain?
Considered the largest living organism on Earth even though it is made up of this microbe
What is Fungi?
The third domain of life that is not Bacteria or Eukaryota
What are Archaea?
1700s disease that ravaged new found America where people were left with lots of blisters on their skin
What is Smallpox?
This allows bacteria to 'swim' around towards or away from signals in the environment
What is the Flagella?
NIH research initiative aimed to improve the understanding of the microbiota in human health and disease
What is the Human Microbiome Project?
These bacteria (or region) that lives on the surface of plant roots
What are Rhizobia (or Rhizoshpere)?
Idea that DNA gets transcribed into RNA then translated to proteins
What is the Central Dogma?
1500s disease that tanked the English population and gave rise to doctors with crow-like masks
What is the Plague (Black Death acceptable)?
Circularized DNA separate from the main chromosome of Bacteria
What is a Plasmid?
New method that allowed us to gather DNA from unculturable bacteria
What is Metagenomics?
The approximate ratio of human cells to bacteria in/on the human body
What is 1:1?