Kingdoms
These prokaryotes are able to make you sick.
What are bacteria?
Yeast reproduce by this method.
What is budding?
Fungi and protists are part of this group of organisms. (Hint: they DO contain a nucleus)
What are eukaryotes?
This is used to treat bacterial infections.
What is an antibiotic?
These archaea can live in areas that have high salt concentrations.
What are halophiles?
These microorganisms can be found in pond water.
What are protists?
The asexual reproduction process in bacteria.
What is binary fission?
This refers to the types of organisms (or cells within an organism) that a virus is able to invade.
What is the host range?
This is the protein on the outside of an invading cell (such as bacteria) that our immune system recognizes.
What is an antigen?
E. coli bacteria can be found here in our bodies, helping with digestion and producing vitamins.
What is the (large) intestine?
These are the only single-celled fungi.
What are yeast?
What is the mycelium?
These tail-like structures help some protists move about in fluids.
What are flagella?
Athlete's foot is an infection caused by this type of organism.
What is fungi?
We studied this type of protist, which moves using a pseudopod.
What is an amoeba?
These prokaryotes can live in extreme conditions.
What are archaea?
The process bacteria use to reproduce sexually, which involves the transfer of plasmids.
What is conjugation?
This is the scientific name for rod-shaped bacteria.
What is bacilli/bacillus?
These Y-shaped proteins protect the body from future infection.
What are antibodies?
This group of microscopic particles are the smallest ones that we studied.
What are viruses?
These microscopic particles are not considered to be alive.
What are viruses?
A virus must do this in order to reproduce.
What is invade a host cell?
These small pieces of circular DNA can give an organism special characteristics, such as antibiotic resistance.
What are plasmids?
This type of immune cell engulfs and destroys invading bacteria.
What is a macrophage?
Vaccines introduce antigens (or parts of antigens) into your bloodstream to stimulate your immune system to produce antibodies. This process represents this type of immunity.
What is ACTIVE immunity?