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51 Cards in this Set
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Micro organism |
a very small living thing |
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Bacteria |
type of micro organism |
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Virus |
type of micro organism |
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Fungi |
type of micro organism |
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Movement |
How does the living thing move/move its part? |
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Reproduction |
How does the micro organism make more members of its own series? (numbers growing not growing larger) |
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Sensitivity |
How does the micro organism sense/react to its environment? |
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Growth |
How does each micro organism grow larger? (not about getting a bigger number of the micro organisms) |
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Excretion |
How does the micro organism get rid of wastes it doesnt want? (main way micro organisms affect humans) |
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Nutrition |
How does the micro organism feed? (2nd most common way micro organisms affect humans.) |
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Respiration |
What does the micro organism breathe to get energy from its food? |
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Capsule (1st) |
protects bacteria |
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Inoculate |
to start growing micro organisms |
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Toxins |
poisonous waste products |
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Antibiotics |
medicine made by fungi, kills bateria |
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Antiseptics |
milder forms of disinfectants |
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Disinfectants |
chemicals poisonous to micro organisms and humans |
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Saprophyte |
micro organism that live on/break down dead things (aka decomposer) |
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Parasite |
micro organisms that live in other things + harm them (harm isnt always major) |
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Symbiote |
micro organisms that live in other things + help them |
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Decomposer |
micro organism that live on/break down dead things (aka saprophyte) |
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Competition |
different microorganisms compete for resources eg. space, food, water |
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pH |
how much acid/base something is |
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Growth curve |
when reproduction stops and starts decreasing, cause of lack of food or something kills them. |
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Flagellum |
used for movement |
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Cytoplasm |
insides/guts of bacteria, where reactions take place |
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Cell wall (2nd) |
outside of bacteria, keeps it the right shape/controls the shape |
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Cell membrane (3rd) |
skin of bacteria, controls what goes in/out |
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DNA |
part of the micro organism that acts like a brain |
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Aerobic |
breathing using oxygen |
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Anaerobic |
breathing not using oxygen |
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Enzymes |
chemicals produced by bacteria and fungi |
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Binary fission |
splitting into 2 |
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Hyphae |
acts like roots |
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Spores |
like seeds/pollen, used for reproduction |
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Sporangia |
more than one spore |
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Culture |
growing micro organisms |
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Sub culture |
growing more of a micro organism that's already been cultured
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Microbes |
short word for micro organisms |
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Petri dish |
plastic container for growing micro organisms |
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Agar |
jelly used as food for micro organisms |
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Pathogens |
micro organisms that causes disease |
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Incubate |
a place that keeps micro organisms warm so they reproduce/grow faster |
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Extra cellular digestion |
digestion outside the cell |
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Unicellular |
one cell |
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Sporangium |
holds,makes and releases spores |
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Budding |
new cell growing on side of parent cell |
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Chromosome |
brain of bacteria/controls what the bacteria does |
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Pilus |
used for movement |
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Exponential growth |
when 1 bacteria keeps doubling, stops when bacteria runs out of sources/gets killed by something |
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Intracellular |
digestion inside the body |
