Life cycles
Matter is not created nor destroyed
What is the law of conservation?
A process where microorganisms breakdown carbohydrates like sugar without oxygen to make energy
What is fermentation?
Type of microbe that is not alive
What is a virus?
2 main components of viruses
What is the protein capsid and genome?
Bacteria that uses photosynthesis
What is cyanobacteria?
CO2 plus sunlight to make sugar
What is photosynthesis?
4 types of applied microbiology
What is food/alcohol production, medicine, biotechnology, and environmental bioredimediation?
Type of microbes that are only heterotrophs
What is fungi?
The step of the viral life cycle where the lysogenic cycle ends
What is synthesis?
The way that ameba move
What is pseudopodia?
Compounds found in amino acids
What is carbon, nitrogen, and sulfur?
Things in the body made by bacteria that are trying to outcompete their competition
What are antibodies?
Type of microbe that has no cell wall
What is protozoa?
2 ways to release from the cell in the lytic cycle
What is lyse the cell and exocytosis?
Byproducts of fermentation
What is CO2 and ethanol?
The way humans take in these elements
What is consuming plants?
Quick heating of a substance to kill microbes
What is pasteurization?
Characteristics of algae
What is lots of chloroplasts, are autotrophs, and does photosynthesis?
4 ways to classify viruses?
What is size, structure, range of host and life cycle?
An outer membrane on a virus
What is an envelope?
When microorganisms convert atmospheric nitrogen (N2) to ammonia (NH3).
What is nitrogen fixing?
The part of the antigen that goes into a vaccine
What is their genome?
Three types of asexual reproduction of algae
What is binary fission, spore formation, and fragmentation?
3 types of capsids
What is helical, polyhedral and complex?
Types of genomes that are rare in viruses