Bacteria
Prokaryotic
Eukaryotic.
This specialized virus infects and replicates inside bacterial cells.
What is a bacteriophage?
What are Fungi?
Organisms in this kingdom absorb nutrients from their surroundings and help break down dead organic matter.
This term refers to the living organism or cell that a virus or parasite uses to survive or reproduce.
What is a host?
Bacteria obtain energy from these two primary environmental sources
What are sunlight and chemicals?
Members of the protist group thrive primarily in these physical environments.
What are moist environments
How do viruses reproduce?
Viruses hijack a host cell’s machinery to reproduce, either through the lytic or lysogenic cycle.
Fungi cannot make their own food and must absorb nutrients from other sources, making them this type of organism.
What is a heterotroph?
These harmful substances produced by pathogens can cause severe symptoms in an infected organism.
What are toxins?
What do endospores due for a bacterial organism?
Protect the bacteria from unfavorable conditions
Unlike harmless protists, parasitic protists survive by doing this to another organism.
What is living in or on a host and causing harm
This preventive treatment trains the immune system to recognize a pathogen so it can respond quickly in the future.
What is a Vaccine
These microscopic structures are carried by wind or water to help fungi establish new colonies.
What are spores?
What are some common diseases caused by fungi?
Athlete's foot, ringworm, and yeast infections.
List the Shapes of Bacteria
Spherical (ball-shaped), rod-shaped, and spiral-shaped are the three basic forms of these single-celled organisms.
This disease is caused by a parasitic protist that spreads to humans through mosquito bites.
What is Malaria
Cannot reproduce independently
Thread-like structures called hyphae intertwine to form this larger underground fungal network.
What is a mycelium
Recognized as a distinct domain in 1977, organisms in this group are famous for surviving extreme temperatures.
What are Archaea?
Contrary to the myth that all bacteria cause disease, most bacteria actually fall into these two non-harmful categories.
What is Helpful and Harmful
Drinking unsafe, contaminated water can spread these two specific illness-causing protists.
What are Giardia and Cryptosporidium
How do bacteria and viruses differ in terms of living status?
Bacteria are considered living organisms because they can reproduce and carry out metabolism, while viruses are non-living and require a host to replicate.
A famous ____________fungus in Oregon is remarkable because its underground network covers an area equivalent to over 1,000 of these________
colony of honey fungus, football fields
Viruses are measured in these tiny units, showing they are far smaller than most bacteria.
What are nanometers?