Who am I?
I feed on dead organisms.
Who is a decomposer?
What bacteria is one of the principal causes of food poisoning? If food is not cooked properly it will remain in the food. It can cause nausea, diarrhea, and a high fever in mild cases. Severe cases can cause you to stop breathing and death.
The pressure inside a plant cell due to the increasing size of the central vacuole is called?
What is turgor pressure?
What surrounds the outside of the membrane of a plant cell? It is the outermost part of the cell?
What is the cell wall?
I grow on dead or dying trees and can be seen when you take a walk in the woods. I am extensions of real fungus which grows beneath the bark of the tree.
Who is shelf fungus?
What is the number one way you can limit your exposure to pathogens?
What is by washing your hands with soap and water.
Food that has had almost all its water removed is called?
What part of the plant absorbs water and nutrients from the soil?
What are the roots?
I am in the
Kingdom Fungi. I am good on pizza and in risotto. I have a cap, gills, stalk, and network of mycelium
Who is a mushroom?
When you buy meat, eggs, and milk from the store what should you do with them when you get home immediately? And why?
You should put them in the fridge to keep them from spoiling. A lot of food spoilage is from bacteria. Meat can get rancid because of bacteria. Putting the food in the fridge reduces the growth and reproduction of bacteria, which keeps the food from spoiling for a while.
The organelle inside of a plant cell that can be thought of as a water balloon. It fills with water and increases in size. It pushes against the cell wall and the cell wall pushes back making the plant rigid.
What is the central vacuole?
Where is the main place that photosynthesis takes place in most plants?
What are the leaves?
I grow on fruit, bread, and other foods.
Who is mold?
What is the common contaminate in eggs and poultry? In order to get rid of it you need to cook the eggs and meat thoroughly. Mild cases are also nausea and diarrhea, severe cases are death.
What is Salmonella?
The process by which one part of a plant can form new roots and develop into a complete plant.
What is vegetative reproduction?
What helps transport the nutrients and water to the leaves?
What are the stems?
I live underneath the ground and am a vast network of interwoven filaments called hypha, which is actually fungus.
Who is mycelium?
How did people store meath before we had refrigeration?
What is they salted it. Salt reduces bacterial growth and reproduction as well as refrigeration. The only problem with using salt is it changes the taste of the food you are trying to store. Salting meat tends to make it better, but you definitely would not want to salt your milk!
What are bacteria that cause disease called?
What is pathogenic?
How do plants typically reproduce?
What is by forming seeds?