Microbe Mania
What is the word microbes short for?
Microorganisms.
Are viruses living things?
No
Are bacteria good for you or bad for you?
Both
Are protists prokaryotes or eukaryotes?
Eukaryotes
What is the largest mircoorganism ever to exist on Earth?
It's a fungus.
We say that some microbes are autotrophic and some are heterotrophic. What do those words mean?
Autotophs make their own food. Heterotrophs have to consume other organisms for energy.
Draw 2 of the three shapes that a virus can be.
Round, worm-like, robot like bacteriaphage.
Are bacteria prokaryotes or eukaryotes?
Prokaryotes
They have characteristics of
all 3.
How do fungi reproduce?
They produce spores.
Eukaryotes
How do viruses reproduce once they get inside your body?
They inject their genetic material into a host cell and force the host cell to make more copies of the virsus's genetic material.
Where in your body do you have bacteria?
Pretty much everywhere
What microorganism causes ringworm and athlete's foot?
Fungi
These types of microbes are prokaryotes that can leave in very extreme conditions.
Archaea
They trigger the body to make chemicals that surround and destroy the virus.
List 1 bad things and 2 good things that bacteria do?
Are protists unicellular or multicellular? This is a trick question.
They can be either.
Are fungi heterotrophs or autotrophs?
Heterotrophs.
What is a host cell?
A cell that a virus infects and takes over in order to reproduce.
What is one way bacteria reproduce?
Binary fission (or conjection)
What would you say are the most diverse group of microorganisms and why?
Protists because they can be prokaryotes or eukaryotes; they can be unicellular or multicellular and they can be autotrophs or heterotrophs.
What medicine is make from fungi?
Penicillin