Vocab
The relative size of things
What is scale?
Medicines that kill microorganisms, especially bacteria
What are antibiotics?
The bacteria that originally made Patient 23 sick
What is C. jejuni?
A treatment where a doctor takes the feces from a person with a healthy gut microbiome and puts it into the gut of a person with an unhealthy gut microbiome
What is a fecal transplant?
This means the evidence addresses the question
What is relevant?
Too small to be seen with the naked eye
What is microscopic?
Living things such as plant, animals, and bacteria
What are organisms?
Lives in the guts of all kinds of animals, especially birds and reptiles, and usually is passed around through animal waste
What is salmonella?
The person who underwent the fecal transplant we studied in class
Who is Patient 23?
What the human body provides for bacteria
What is food and living space?
A proposed answer to a question about the natural world
What is claim?
An organism that is too small to be seen with the naked eye
What is a microorganism?
Helps the immune system produce enough bacteria immune cells to kill harmful invading bacteria
What is B. fragilis?
In our case study, this killed both the good bacteria and bad bacteria in the patient's gut microbiome
What are antibiotics?
The approximate number of microorganisms on and in the human body
What is 100 trillion?
The process of making clear how your evidence supports your claim
Tiny organisms made of a single cell
What are bacteria?
Helps the gut lining to produce mucus, which protects the gut and keeps it healthy
What is L. reuteri?
The animals that made good subjects for testing the effect of bacteria on humans
What are mice?
The FOUR pieces you need for a complete scientific argument
What is question, 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 a claim
What is evidence?
Can sometimes be treated with a fecal transplant
What is C. difficile?
The first and last name of the Senator who opposed studying microorganisms
Who is Robert Naismith?
What we can do to observe microorganisms with our naked eye
What is grow a culture?