Bacteria
The three most common shapes of bacteria.
What are spirilla, cocci, and bacilli?
places where bacteria can be found
What is everywhere?
The four shapes of viruses.
What are spherical, complex, sphere, and polyhedral.
Harmful bacteria.
What is pathogenic bacteria?
These bacteria take nitrogen form the air and transform it into a usuable nitrogen for plants.
What are nitrogen-fixating bacteria?
Two main types of bacteria.
What are archaebacteria and eubacteria?
Bacteria reproduces during this process.
What is binary fission?
name for viruses that infect bacteria.
What is bacteriophage?
a relationship in which one organism lives on, near, or inside another and at least one benefits.
What is symbiosi?
These bacteria break down dead plants and organic materials to produce nutrients for other organisms.
What are decomposer bacteria?
how do bacteria help keep humans healthy.
What is helping digest food, producing vitamin k and b12 ?
New bacterium is genetically ______________ to the parent bacterium.
What is genetically identical?
A method for preventing viruses.
What is vaccines?
A thick-walled genetic spore that contains genetic material and protein.
What is an endospore?
What effect has transportation had on the spread of viruses?
What is has increased the spread of viruses?
Environment in which archaebacteria live.
What are harsh or extreme environments?
Eukaryotes have these, but prokaryotes do not.
What is a nucleous?
The cycle in which the genetic material is inactive.
What is lysogenic cycle?
a layer that protects bacteria from destructive chemicals.
What is a capsule?
HIV, common cold, and influenza.
What are types of viruses?
Three classifications of eubacteria.
What decomposers, producers ( autotrophs), and consumers (heterotrophs).
Medication that destroys bacteria.
What is anti-biotic?
The host cell is destroyed at the completion of this cycle.
What is the lytic cycle?
Organisms that can only reproduce within a host cell.
What are viruses?
true or false bacteria can reproduce every 20 minutes under optimal conditions.
What is true?