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Bacteria
Bacteria Vocabulary
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Science
6th Grade
02/22/2011

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Aerobe

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Definition
organism that uses oxygen for respiration
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Anaerobe

 

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Definition
organism that can live without oxygen
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Endospore

 

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Definition
sleeping form created within thick wall of bacterium
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Antibiotic

 

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Definition
Medicine that kills bacteria infection
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Pathogen

 

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Definition
Any organism that a causes disease
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Vaccine

 

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Definition
dose of specific dead bacteria used to immune your body from the live bacteria
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Saprophyte
Definition
any organism uses dead material for food and energy
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Pasteurization
Definition
process used to kill harmful
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Protist
Definition
- one or many celled organism
- lives in moist or wet environment
- eukaryotic
-nucleus other strustures in cytoplasm
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Protozoans
Definition
one celled animal like protist
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Pseudopods
Definition
extension of protozoans cytoplasm for movement
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Algae
Definition
plant like protist
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Hyphae
Definition
many celled thread like tubes found in the body of fungi
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Sporangia
Definition
reproductive structures grow from zygospores form on tips of upright hyphae
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Lichen
Definition
formed when fungus and green algae or cyanobacterium live together
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