Characteristics of Bacteria
Bacteria is formed in these shapes.
What is round, rod, and spiral-shaped?
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A vitamin made in your intestines.
What is vitamin K?
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Agents which normally live in your body.
What are pathogens?
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Viruses which go through an inactive stage.
What are latent viruses?
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A protein which makes a pathogen useless.
What is an antibody?
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Bacteria that don't need oxygen.
What is anaerobic bacteria?
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The use of organisms to clean up areas that have been contaminated.
What is bioremediation?
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Pathogens active only when this network is weakened.
What is an immune system?
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____ can have different shapes.
What is a virus?
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When people become resistant to a disease.
What is acquired immunity?
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Methods in which bacteria reproduces.
What is fission and conjugation?
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An organism used to make food, such as vinegar.
What is bacteria?
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A process in which food poisoning is reduced.
What is pasteurization?
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Once, a virus infects a cell that cell becomes this.
What is a host cell?
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Viruses that are constantly changing.
What are viral diseases?
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Structures on a bacteria's capsule.
What is pili?
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A process which releases molecules into the soil.
What is decomposition?
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Bacteria become _____ to antibiotics after a certain time period.
What is resistant?
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A change in genetic material.
What is a mutation?
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The best way to prevent infections.
What is good hygiene?
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Extremophiles that are similar to bacteria.
What are archaean?
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Special structures in a plant.
What are nodules?
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Tuberculosis occurs because of this.
What is damaged tissue?
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A virus can make copies of itself in this process.
What is replication?
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Medicines used to treat viral diseases.
What are antiviral medicines?
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