Bacteria
Found everywhere soil, water, & air- even inside animals
What is Bacteria?
Vital for survival for all plants and animals.
What are microorganisms?
Describe a virus?
What are NON-living particles that can reproduce inside a living cell AND
A tiny nonliving particle that enters and then reproduces inside a living cell.
Bacteria that make their own food.
What are autotrophs?
An organism that provides a source of energy or a suitable environment for a parasite to live with, in, or on.
What is a host?
What is
1. Reproduce
2. Use food for energy/grow
3. Respond to the surroundings
4. Produce waste
Bacteria that must find their own food.
What are heterotrophs?
A substance used in a vaccination that consists of pathogens that have been weakened or killed but can still trigger the body to produce chemicals that destroy the pathogens.
What is a vaccine?
Describe what Viruses can look like under a microscope?
What is round, brick-like, thread-like, or bullet-shaped?
This type of bacteria absorbs nutrients from decaying organisms.
What are decomposers?
Single-celled organisms that lack a nucleus; prokaryotes.
What is bacteria?
What can a virus attacking cells cause?
Disease
This makes the bacterial cell move towards its food like propellers?
What are flagella?
Organisms we come in contact with every day that are so small you need a microscope to see them.
What is a microorganism?
How do Viruses reproduce?
- Contain genetic material with a protein coating
- Chemical instructions for making more viruses
- Host- an organism that provides the source of energy or is suitable for a virus to live