Biol 2500 Test 1 Ch1 Study Guide

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Simple, single celled organisms. Their genetic material is not enclosed in a nuclear membrane:
(prokaryotes)

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Bacteria

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organisms whose cells have a distinct nucleus containing the cell's genetic material (DNA), surrounded by a nuclear membrane
(eukaryote s)

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Fungus

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Unicellular eukaryotic microbes, move by flagella or cilia

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Protozoa

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Photosynthetic eukaryote s with a wide variety of shape and both sexual and asexual. cell wall is composed of cellulose

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Algae

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two major groups of parasitic worms are the flatworms and the round worms called:

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helminths

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Can only be seen through electron microscope and are acellular (not cellular) have to infect their host to live

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Virus

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using microbes to clean up pollutants and toxic waste.

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Bioremediation

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the chemical breakdown of materials by a physiological environment

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Biodegradation

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commercial use of microorganisms to produce some common food and chemicals

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biotechnology

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a disease in which pathogens invade a susceptible host

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infectious disease

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infections diseases not only are not disappearing, but seem to be reemerging and increasing

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Emerging Infectious Diseases

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Smallpox is caused by and transmitted by

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smallpox (variola) virus
respiratory route
epidermal layer of skin