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An organism that causes disease
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Pathogen
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An organism that feeds on a living host
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Saprophyte
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An organism that feeds on a living host
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parasite
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an organism that requires oxygen
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aerobic organism
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an organism that doesn't require oxygen
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Anerobic organism
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A state in which members of a population die as quickly as new members are born.
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Steady State
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population qrowth that is unhindered because of the abundance of resources for an ever-increasing population
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Exponential qrowth
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population growth that is controlled by limited resources
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Logistic growth
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a temporary union of two organisms for the purpose of DNA transfer
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conjugation
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a small circular section of extra DNA that confers one or mare traits to a bacterium and can be reproduced separatly from the main bacterial genetic code.
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plasmid
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the transfer of a DNA segment from a nonfunctional donor cell to that of a functional recipient cell.
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Transformation
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The process in which infetion by a virus results in DNA being transferred from one bacterium to another
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Transduction
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The DNA and other essential parts of a bacterium coated with several other hard layers
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Endospore
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organisms from the same species that have markedly different traits
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Strains
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