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Chapter 13 - Microbes

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Most archaea like to live in very hot, very salty, and/or very low oxygen conditions, making them ______________
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A disease caused by protists, transferred by a mosquito
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Number of domains microbes are found in
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Beneficial bacteria that live in the intestinal organs
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Bacteria that metabolize inorganic compounds
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Type of asexual reproduction in bacteria where a cell splits in half
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A worldwide outbreak of a disease
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E. Coli is an example of a ___________ that lives int eh human digestive system
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Transfer of plasmid DNA from one bacterial cell to an adjacent bacterial cell
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Archae are not classified as eukarya becasue their cells lack a
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Type of bacterial DNA that carry genes for specific functions
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Single celled eukaryotes
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Viruses are not cells, but they do contain genetic material in a protein container called a ____________
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Transfer of a segment of DNA from the environment to a bacterial cell
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Surface cells on viruses that dictate what type of cells that the virus will be able to attach to
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Viruses replicate using their host's ____________
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Transfer of a segment of DNA from a bacteriophage to a bacterial cell
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Feeding mechanism of protists that involves "funneling" food into the cell in a vacuole and digesting the food