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Defense!
Disorders
Name that Bacteria
Food and Environment
Potpourri
100
This body defense causes bacteria die by increasing the temperature
What is fever?
100
This cell growth is slow and localized
What is a benign tumor?
100
A chain of round bacteria
What is streptococcus?
100
These organisms can make their own food
What are autotrophs?
100
Tiny bacteria that must live inside a living cell
What are rickettsiae?
200
This body defense is why the site of an infection is so sore.
What is inflammation?
200
This cell growth is fast-growing and spreading throughout the body
What is a malignant tumor?
200
A large cluster of round bacteria
What is staphylococcus?
200
The process by which organisms make food from sunlight
What is photosynthesis?
200
The enzyme contained in a retrovirus
What is reverse transcripterase?
300
These cells catch and digest pathogens
What are phagocytes?
300
You are born with these disorders
What are inherited disorders?
300
Rod-shaped bacteria colonies, groups of 2
What is diplobacillus?
300
The process by which organisms make food form inorganic chemicals.
What is chemosythesis?
300
An antibody is this kind of defense
What is specific defense?
400
This body system filters out bacteria
What is the lymphatic system?
400
this is the study of aging, but aging is not a disorder
What is gerontology?
400
Chains of spiral bacteria
What is streptospirillum?
400
A bacteria that encounters this in your tears won't be happy
What is lysozyme?
400
This test looks for peptidoglycan in the cell walls of bacteria
What is the Gram Stain test?
500
These medicines work against bacteria, but not viruses
What are antibiotics?
500
Any disease not caused by a bacteria or virus
What is a disorder?
500
Colonies of rod-shaped bacteria, large groups
What is staphylobacillus
500
This gas is produced by anaerobic respiration
What is methane?
500
Carcinogens, radiation and viruses
What are 3 causes of cancer?