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 .