Tiny organisms that are made of a single cell
What is bacteria?
Medicines that kill microorganisms, especially bacteria
What are antibiotics?
This was a procedure done to Patient 23 to cure his microbiome to give him better gut bacteria.
What is a Fecal Transplant?
A water molecule is ________ than a cell
Describe what happened to the petri dish days 1-9 using these vocabulary words:
bacteria, cells, microscopic
Sample Answer: The bacteria taken from the unwashed hand started out as microscopic, but then grew into a gross, mold-like substance we could see as the cells began to reproduce in the gelatin.
The tiny structures that make up all living things and are the smallest units able to perform life functions
What are cells?
A proposed answer to a question about the natural world
gut ______ and _______ cells are increased by the bacteria B. fragilis and L. reuteri
What are gut mucus and immune cells?
Molecules are comprised of (made out of) _______
What is an atom?
The 3 pieces we need to create an argument.
What is Claim, Evidence, and Reasoning?
All of the microorganisms that live in a particular environment, such as a human body
What is microbiome?
Information about the natural world that is used to support or go against (refute) a claim
What is evidence?
Name a relevant piece of evidence for why we need antibiotics. Hint: What happened to Patient 23 when he got food poisoning?
Sample Answer: Antibiotics kill bacteria. Patient 23 contract food poisoning by the bacteria C. jejuni. His gut microbiome before he felt sick did not have this bacteria, and when he felt sick, this new bacteria was in his gut. Therefore, C. jejuni made him sick.
nanometer is _____ of a micrometer
a) 1/10
b) 1/100
c) 1/1,000
d) 1/10,000
1/1,000
What is this
A louse! (lice in your hair)
An organism (living things such as bacteria, plant, or animal) that is too small to be seen with the naked eye
What is microorganism?
Sickness caused by harmful microorganisms
What is infection?
The components needed for good, healthy bacteria to survive in the gut microbiome
What is space and food?
The best unit for measuring DNA?
What is nanometer?
A bad type of bacteria that Patient 23 contracted
What is C. difficile?
The process of making clear how your evidence supports your claim
What is reasoning?
The relative size of things
What is scale?
This type of microbiome in mice was more likely to catch Salmonella compared to the normal mice's gut microbiome.
What is an empty microbiome?
organisms, scale, microscopic.
We can understand the scale of organisms by recognizing that they range from microscopic, unseen by the naked eye, to larger beings visible to us, demonstrating the vast differences in size.
Things we do when we annotate a text.
Sample Answer: Highlight words we don't know, big concepts or main ideas, and write any questions we have.