Microorganisms Bingo Review
1. Microorganism – a tiny living thing that can be seen only with the aid of a microscope.
2. Bacteria- a single cell organism that are much smaller than plant or animal cell.
3. Archaea – another well-known prokaryotes; similar to bacteria.
4. Pili – helps the bacteria stick to surfaces
5. Flagella – allow the bacteria to move
6. Cilia – short, hairlike structures that grow on the surface of a protist.
7. Fission – is a cell division that forms two genetically identical cells.
8. Conjugation – happens when two bacteria combine their genetic material.
9. Anaerobic - bacteria that does not need oxygen in order to survive
10. Aerobic – A bacterium that needs oxygen in order to survive.
11. Virus – a strand of DNA and RNA that can infect and replicate in a host cell
12. Antibody – a protein that can attach to a pathogen and make it useless
13. Vaccine – a mixture containing material from one or more deactivated pathogens.
14. Mutations – allows viruses to adjust to changes in their host cell
15. Host Cell – what the living virus can infect
16. Protists – eukaryotic organisms that have similar characteristics to other living things
17. Characteristics – this determines how protists are divided; plant, animal, or fungus.
18. Plantlike Protists – produce food through photosynthesis
19. Funguslike Protists – responsible for breaking down dead plant and animal matter
20. Great Potato Famine – caused by a funguslike protist that caused thousands of people to die of starvation
21. Protozoans – protists that resemble tiny animals
22. Fungi – a microorganism that cannot make their own food.
23. Heterotrophs – the inability to make their own food (example would be fungus)
24. Mushroom – is an example of a club fungi
25. Yeast – is an example of a sac fungi
26. Malaria – a disease caused by a protozoan
27. Amoeba – a pseudopod that moves through the environment and obtain food.
28. Algae – an example of a plantlike protist
29. Prokaryotic Cell – a unicellular organism that doesn’t have a nucleus or any other membrane bound organelles
30. Eukaryotic Cell – an organism that contains a nucleus and other membrane bound organelles