Structure
These are the three most common shapes of bacteria.
What are coccus, baccillus and spirillus?
All four models of nutrition in Prokaryotes.
What are photoautotrophy, photoheterotrophy, chemoautotrophy, and chemoheterotrophy?
Prokaryotes use this process to convert carbon dioxide to organic carbon.
What is carbon fixation?
Pastuer's early experiments linking microbes were based on this "yeasty" process.
What is fermentation?
These are the fundamental units of living organisms.
What are cells?
The structure that most motile bacteria propel themselves with.
What is flagella?
This type of unicellular eukaryote can be aquatic or terrestrial, free-living or parasitic.
What are protozoans?
The peptidoglycan cell wall of this type of bacteria retains crystal violet stain
What is gram-positive bacteria.
Lister discovered that using this substance before surgery could prevent infection.
What is disinfectant/antiseptic?
The theory that life can arise from non-living material is called
What is the theory of spontaneous generation?
A small ring of DNA found in some species of prokaryotes.
What is a plasmid?
These multicellular eukaryotes rely on a host and sometimes require multiple hosts to complete a life cycle.
What are parasites?
Daily Double! This gram-negative bacteria was categorized as a separate phylum within domain Bacteria due to their highly similar nucleotide sequences.
What is proteobacteria?
The theory that disease originated from particles emanating from decomposing matter was called
What is the miasma theory?
The principle of biogenesis states that "All cells only come from..."
What are other cells?
A rapid method of Prokaryotic reproduction.
What is binary fission?
This eukaryote comes in multicellular and unicellular forms and is commonly found on old bread?
What is fungi?
These extremophiles are microorganisms, but are not bacteria.
What are archaea?
Snow demonstrated that this disease was transmitted through contaminated drinking water?
What is cholera?
This scientists swan-neck bottles disproved the theory of spontaneous generation for good.
Who is Louis Pasteur?
Eukaryotes have these, but prokaryotes do not.
What are membrane-bound organelles?
This eukaryote produces 70% of the oxygen and organic matter in aquatic environments.
What is algae?
These archaea live in swamps or marshes, and produce methane as a waste product.
What are Methanogens?
Semmelweiss showed that doing this simple thing reduced maternal mortality rate from 20% to 1%/
What is washing hands?
Daily Double! Spallanzani proved that some microorganisms can live in the absence of what nutrient?
What is air?