bacteria/viruses
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- host
- organism that supports parasite
- spirilla
- causes lyme disease
- nitrogen fixing
- bacteria consume nitrogen in the air- change it into a form that plants can use
- swamps
- methane makers
- eubacteria
- classified by shape and how it obtains energy
- eukaryotic
- nucleus; protist, fungi, animal, plant
- 3 types of archaebacteria
- methane makers. salt lovers, heat lovers
- 2 types of consumers
- decomposers parasites
- virus
- microscopic particle that invades a cell and often destroys it
- why are viruses living?
- ability to reproduce
- insulin
- genetically engineered bacteria for diabetes
- bioremediation
- bacteria used to change pollutants into harmless chemicals
- spirilla
- least common shape; flagella used at both ends; spin in circle
- endospore
- thick protective covering coat; membrane used when conditions become unfavorable
- prokaryotic
- no nucleus eubacteria and archaebacteria
- virus classification
- by the disease they cause
- dead sea
- salt lovers
- archaebacteria
- classifies by their location
- 3 shapes of bacteria
- bacillus-rod; coccus-sphere; spirillum-spiral
- pathogenetic bacteria
- harmful bacteria that cause diseases
- bacterial producers
- cyanobacteria
- bacilli
- E.coli; true living Eubacteria
- lyctic cycle
- infecting cells; turning them into viruses
- lysogenetic cycle
- inject their genes divide first then produce new viruses
- cocci
- eubacteria that forms endosphere; disease causing