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Microorganism |
An organism that is to small to be seen that you have to use a microscope |
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Kingdoms |
Scientists divide the organisms, they identify them into groups called kingdoms |
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Binary Fission |
Where unicellular organisms reproduce by having there genetic material split into two organisms |
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Bacteria |
Simplest kind of life known to Earth composed of one cell without a nucleus reproduces by binary fission |
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Archaea |
Single celled organisms that can survive in the largest range of enviormnts |
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Producers |
bacteria that transforms sunlight into energy |
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Decomposers |
get energy by breaking down materials in dead or decaying animals. |
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Parasites |
Unlike some bacteria which is helpful to there hosts parasites are not. |
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Host Cells |
Cells that viruses infect to make copies |
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Algae |
this name applies to both multi-cellular and unicellular organisms that use sunlight as an energy source |
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Plankton |
All organisms that drift in water to move |
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Protozoa |
Protists that eat other organisms or decaying parts of other organisms |
