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| Species with cells lacking membrane-bound organelles |
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| Species with membrane-bound organelles include plants, animals, fungi and protists. |
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a visible speck or patch of millions of bacterial cells that are typically the progeny of a single cell that reproduces on the agars surface |
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| certain bacteria and cyanobacteria transform atmospheric nitrogen into other nitrogenous compounds that can be used as nutrients by plants |
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bacteria (E.g. streptococcus, micrococcus) have a thick cell wall that retains a purple dye
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(Escherichia coli, serratia) bacteria have a much thinner cell wall that does not retain the dye.
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| An enveloping tubular structure, such as the base of a grass leaf that surrounds the stem or the tissue that encloses a muscle or nerve fiber. |
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| a large transparent thick-walled cell that is found in the filaments of some cyanobacteria and is the site of nitrogen fixation. |
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| is a "long chain of proteins, such as those found in hair, muscle, or in flagella". They are often bundled together for strength and rigidity. |
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| A hairlike projection from a plant epidermal cell. Examples include root hairs and the stinging hairs of nettle leaves. |
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sexual reproduction by laying side by side –horizontal gene transfer |
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| Tube used in conjugation to exchange info |
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| diploid formed by gametic fusion |
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| a new colony that is produced initically by a parent colony |
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The water leaving a centrifuge after most of the solids have been removed.
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a hard, unreactive, colorless compound that occurs as the mineral quartz and as a principal constituent of sandstone and other rocks. |
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