LS 1
At least half the cells in and on your body are part of your ____
Microbiota
Bacteria usually reproduces by a process called ______
Binary fission
Sometimes the conditions are so poor that bacteria struggle to survive. But some bacteria escape these conditions by forming ______
Endospores
________ are responsible for recycling matter from waste.
decomposers
The preservation of fine detail in a fossil requires?
Rapid burial
decomposers
fixing nitrogen
________ have no cytosol, no organelles, and no cell membrane
Virus
Protein coat is also called a ______
Capsid
Unlike living cells, viruses cannot reproduce on their own. Instead a virus must infect a cell in another organism called ______
Host
In _______ one bacterium connects to another bacterium
conjugation
When viruses destroy the cell by bursting it open and escaping to infect new cells. viruses reproducing in this manner are called
Active viruses
When viral DNA remains inactive for months or even years this is a ________
latent virus
Each time the host cell goes through ______ the viral DNA is replicated and passed to the daughter cells.
Mitosis
An injection of a weakened or dead virus
Vaccine
Some bacteria have a whip-like ______ which the bacteria use to move with some traveling at very fast speeds.
Flagella
_____ is found in bacteria and some of their genes are more similar to eukaryotes than to bacteria
Peptidoglycan
_____ _______ are rarely larger than half a pea.
Bacterial colonies
______ is essential to making many foods including cheese, green olives, yogurt, pickles and salami.
Bacteria
Certain mammals called _______ have a special chamber in their stomach that contains these bacteria
Ruminants
______ helps prevent viral illnesses and bacterial illnesses.
Hand washing
When washing your hands in the fight against illnesses you should use ____
Soap
Bacteria have ______ that produce the proteins they need to survive.
Ribosomes
Like all cells, bacteria have a ________ and many have a cell wall.
Cell membrane
Bacteria is often looked at as bad but can be very ______
Helpful
In the second state in viral reproduction the virus injects its ______ ______ into the host
nucleic acid