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Food Preservation
Viruses
Parasites
Bacteria
Famous Scientists & Microbiology
100
When an organism runs out of a ready supply of glucose and has to use other sources of energy.
What is "hitting a wall"?
100
How viruses are like other forms of life.
What is feeding off of other life forms?/What is having genetic material?
100
A parasite that lives inside the body of its host.
What is an Endoparasite?
100
Type of bacteria that grow in low Ph water.
What are Acidophiles?
100
First person to see and draw bacteria and a whole host of other microbes.
What is Leeuwenhoek?
200
Wen microbes maintain the fertility of the soil so that we are able to grow food.
What is the role of microbes in soil?
200
Material found inside of a virus.
What is genetic information?
200
A parasite that lives partly embedded in its host, usually with the anterior end forming an anchor process.
What is a Mesoparasite?
200
Type of bacteria that grows in a neutral Ph level.
What are Neutraphiles?
200
First person to discover penicillin.
Who is Alexander Fleming?
300
A method as old as drying that was used to prevent food spoilage.
What is using salt?
300
When a virus becomes part of an organism's DNA.
What is a pro-virus?
300
A parasite that lives on the host's surface.
What is an Ectoparasite?
300
First person to discover the cure for Syphilis.
Who is Ehrlich?
400
A method used to sterilize foods that is argued as to whether or not it is dangerous for the person.
What is Radiation?
400
A characteristic that makes a virus unlike other forms of life.
What is being unable to reproduce by itself?
400
A parasite that lays eggs in the nests of other species and permits the foster parents to raise the young.
What is a Social Parasite?
400
Type of bacteria that requires cold temperatures to grow.
What are Psychophiles?
400
Recognized the relationship between cowpox and the immunity to smallpox.
Who is Jenner?
500
Who people say discovered America instead of Columbus.
Who are microbes?
500
When viruses inject their genetic material into the cell and the RNA produces proteins that make more vital shells.
How do viruses reproduce?
500
A parasite that feeds on another parasite.
What is an Epiparasite?
500
Type of bacteria that grows in high Ph waters.
What are Alkalinophiles?
500
Person credited with suggesting the use of agar with the solidifying agent of microbial media.
Who is Hesse?