The Very Small
What do we call organisms that are too small to see with the naked eye?
What are microscopic organisms?
About how many microorganisms live in and on the human body?
What is 100 trillion?
Antibiotics reduce the number of both helpful and ______ bacteria.
What are harmful?
What is the treatment that moves helpful bacteria from one person’s gut to another?
What is a fecal transplant?
Put in order from smallest to largest: centimeters, meter, nanometer, micrometer
nanometer, micrometer, centimeters, meter
Which is bigger: a cell or a molecule?
What is a cell?
Most microorganisms in our microbiome are what type of organism?
What are bacteria?
What happens if you have fewer helpful bacteria in your gut?
You can get sick more easily because harmful bacteria have more food and space.
A fecal transplant restores what in the gut?
What are helpful bacteria?
This many mice with the normal gut microbiome got sick from Salmonella.
What is 3?
What tool did you use in Amplify to understand the size of microorganisms compared to other objects?
What is the Scale Tool?
What two things does the human body provide for bacteria to survive?
What are food and space?
What infection is mentioned that can become deadly if not treated?
What is C. difficile (C. diff)?
Fecal transplants can cure infections by reducing which kind of bacteria?
What are harmful bacteria?
These microorganisms live in a particular environment such as the gut of the human body.
What is microbiome?
What are all living things made of?
What are cells?
A healthy microbiome has many types of what kind of bacteria?
What are helpful bacteria?
What kind of data did you analyze to understand changes in a microbiome during infection?
What is patient microbiome data (before antibiotics, after antibiotics, and after a fecal transplant)?
Fecal transplants have been especially successful in treating which infection?
What is C. difficile?
True/False: Cells are made up of molecules
What is true?
A single-celled organism belongs to which major group of living things?
What are microorganisms
An unhealthy microbiome has fewer helpful bacteria, which makes it easier for what to grow?
What are harmful bacteria?
Why might antibiotics make someone more vulnerable to harmful bacteria?
Because they kill helpful bacteria that normally protect the body.
You created arguments for or against what government issue related to fecal transplants?
What is funding for fecal transplant research?
This many micrometers are in one millimeter
What is 1,000?