Bacteria and Microbes
What amazingly important body bit did Robert Hooke discover under his microscope?
Cells
What are the mega-important glass bits in a microscope called?
Lenses
what are germs
microscopic organisms that can cause disease
what do red blood cells do
they transport oxygen and nutrients throughout the body
How do bacteria eat parts of ships when in the water?
The cells in the water eat the sulfur which turns into sulphide. It joins with that iron atoms on the ship which make a foul black smelly chemical called iron sulphide. Other bacteria happily eat this - and the ship.
What is the name given to the objects people look at under microscopes?
Specimens
how do germs spread
Germs can spread through close contact, breathing in air after someone coughs or sneezes, touching contaminated objects, and more.
what do white blood cells do
Fight off viruses, germs, infection.
What jelly-like microbes did crazy scientist Antony van Leeuwenhoek discover when he started splashing about in his local pond?
Amoebas
What type of microscope do you need to spot minuscule monsters like viruses?
An electron microscope
Which body system is responsible for fighting germs
Immune system
what does the endoplasmic retculum do
synthesize proteins and lipids
How many bacteria was in the yellowstone hot springs
61
What type of extra-special, very expensive microscope can make pictures of atoms?
A scanning-tunneling microscope
How do viruses reproduce
inserting DNA into the host cell
what is the smallest part of a cell
The ribsomes
how thick are the tubes inside the lung
0.01
Using his microscope he saw snowflakes and fungi. Who was he, what book he published and what was used on his microscope to focus things.
Robert Hooke, Micrographia, and a glass ball
A virus consists of what
RNA or DNA and a protein coat
a nucleolus