Bacteria Basics
What type of cell has no nucleus?
What is a prokaryotic cell?
Who discovered penicillin in 1928?
Who is Alexander Fleming?
What is a pathogen?
What is a microorganism that causes disease?
What medicine is used to treat bacterial infections?
What are antibiotics?
What are the three main shapes of bacteria?
What are coccus, bacillus, and spirillum?
What theory explains that microorganisms cause disease?
What is germ theory?
Name one way bacteria can enter the body.
What are cuts, contaminated food, or airborne droplets?
Do antibiotics work against viruses?
What is no?
What structure controls what enters and leaves a bacterial cell?
What is the cell membrane?
Who connected yeast to wine fermentation?
Who is Louis Pasteur?
What is the body's first physical barrier against bacteria?
What is the skin?
What does MRSA stand for?
What is Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus?
What structure helps bacteria move through liquid?
What is a flagellum?
Who used a map to investigate the spread of cholera in London?
Who is John Snow?
What chemical messenger causes blood vessels to widen during inflammation?
What is histamine?
What can happen when someone stops taking antibiotics too early?
What is it when surviving bacteria can multiply and become more resistant?
Where is bacterial DNA located?
What is the nucleoid?
What are the four steps used to connect a microorganism to a disease?
What are Koch's postulates?
What white blood cells engulf and digest bacteria?
What are macrophages?
How does antibiotic resistance develop over generations?
What is bacteria with favorable mutations survive and reproduce, passing resistance to future generations?