Bacteria and Viruses
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- endospores
- some bacteria will survive by growing a thick protective membrane
- binary fission
- most bacteria reproduce by a type of simple cell division
- flagellum
- spins like a corkscrew, propelling a bacterium through liquid
- bioremediation
- use of bacteria other microogranisms to change pollutants into harmless chemicals
- antibiotics
- medicines used to kill bacteria and other microogranisms
- decomposers
- feed on dead organic matter
- virus
- a microscopic particle that invades a celll and often destorys it
- prokaryote
- a cell with no nucleus
- host
- anorganism that supports a parasites
- pathogenic bacteria
- causes diseases
- consumers
- obtain nurtients from other organisms