Ecology
The bright colors found in Yellowstone hot springs are the result of this kind of organism.
What are bacteria?
A DNA or RNA sequence that codes for a protein.
What is a gene?
Who invented pasteurization?
What is Louis Pasteur?
Antibiotics do not work on these infectious particles.
What is a virus?
This barrier defines a living cell.
What is a membrane?
The most numerous type of biological entity.
What is a virus?
The process that turns DNA into RNA
The single most studied bacterium on the planet.
What is Escherichia coli?
A bacterium commonly found in raw chicken.
What is salmonella?
This appendage allows microbes to move around.
What is flagella?
The relationship between two interdependent organisms.
What is mutualism?
The (non-natural) process of amplifying specific segments of DNA.
What is polymerase chain reaction (PCR)?
A late 19th century microbiologist, well known for developing his postulates to establish a causal relationship between a microbe to a disease.
What is Robert Koch?
When left untreated, this is deadliest infectious disease.
What is rabies?
The specialized cell wall of bacteria is made of this.
What is peptidoglycan?
The microbes responsible for potent greenhouse gases released in cow burps.
What is a methanogen?
Originally a bacterial defense system, ___ is now used for site-specific gene editing.
What is CRISPR?
The superseded theory that living creatures emerge from non-living matter.
What is spontaneous generation?
This viral disease has been eradicated.
What is smallpox?
The primary method of bacterial reproduction.
What is binary fission?
What is a biofilm?
This gene is sequenced to identify microbes.
What is the 16S ribosomal RNA gene?
The first person to observe microorganisms using a microscope.
What is Antonie van Leeuwenhoek?
Durable structures formed by some bacteria under stress.
What is an endospore?