Infectious disease
Antibiotics do not work on these infectious particles.
What is a virus?
This defines the interior and exterior of a cell.
What is a membrane?
The process that turns DNA into RNA
Two or more organisms in a long term relationship.
What is symbiosis?
Who invented pasteurization?
What is Louis Pasteur?
This viral disease has been completely eradicated.
What is smallpox?
The primary method of bacterial reproduction.
What is binary fission?
The process of amplifying segments of DNA.
What is polymerase chain reaction (PCR)?
The majority of bacteria and archaea live in this type of community in the wild.
What is a biofilm?
This scientist re-classified life into three domains in the 1970s.
What is Carl Woese?
This pathogen uses animal hosts to spread, and was popularized by a hit TV show.
What is Cordyceps?
This provides the most common form of motility.
What is flagella?
Originally a bacterial defense system, ___ is now used for site-specific gene editing.
What is CRISPR?
What are emergent properties?
The first person to observe microorganisms using a microscope.
What is Antonie van Leeuwenhoek?
These types of organisms can convert atmospheric nitrogen into bioavailable forms.
What are bacteria and archaea?
This segment of DNA is commonly used to quickly identify microbes.
What are 16S genes?
What is the diversity index measuring similarity between communities?
Who is the founder of microbial ecology?
What is Sergei Winogradsky?
What is the causative agent of syphilis.
What is the bacterium Treponema pallidum?
Resistant structures formed by some bacteria under stress.
What is an endospore?
These "jumping genes" can move from one place to another.
What is a transposon?
What is the Bass-Becking hypothesis?
The microbiologist who developed the endosymbiotic theory.
What is Lynn Margulis?