Microorganisms
What are microorganisms?
Microscopic organisms too small to be seen by the naked eye
These tiny organisms are made of a single cell.
What is Bacteria?
Bacteria can both be _____ and _____, depending on the type and location.
What is Beneficial and Harmful?
This is a proposed answer to a question about the natural world.
What is a Claim?
These tiny, single-celled organisms make up the vast majority of our microbiome.
What are Bacteria?
What are the four primary types of microorganisms? (Name all four)
What are Bacteria, viruses, fungi and protists?
True or False: Antibiotics kill only harmful bacteria
What is False?
This is the process of returning an endospore back to its vegetative state.
What is Germination?
This chemical functions as a mordant in gram staining.
What is Iodine?
The microbiome helps train this bodily system to distinguish between friend and foe.
What is the immune system?
How many microorganisms are in the human body?
What is 38 to 39 trillion (or trillions)?
This term describes the community of microorganisms living in a particular environment, such as the human gut.
What is a Microbiome?
These are living microorganisms that, when administered in adequate amount, confer a health benefit.
What are Probiotics?
This term describes an organism that causes disease.
What is a Pathogen?
This domain of single-celled organisms, often found in extreme environments, also resides in the human gut.
What are archaea?
True or False: Microbes cannot multiply on their own
What is False?
This part of the human body contains the highest concentration of microbes.
What is the Colon?
The type of macromolecule that cannot be digested without assistance from gut microbiota.
What is Fiber?
This unit measures the mass of bacteria cells.
What is a Colony?
These products, produced by bacteria fermenting fiber, are essential for colon health.
What are Short-Chain Fatty Acids (SCFAs)?
While bacteria get the spotlight, this type of organism is a key part of the gut microbiome.
What is Fungi?
This substance, created by cellular energy production, leaves the blood through the lungs.
What is Carbon Dioxide?
Common gut bacteria often cited as a culprit for food poisoning, such as E Coli or _____.
What is Salmonella?
The ecological community of commensal, symbiotic, and pathogenic microorganisms that literally share our body space.
What is Microbiota?
The mechanism by which good bacteria prevent bad bacteria from settling down.
What is colonization resistance?