Microbiology Jeopardy

aka: Help, they’re all over me!!

• Stops bacteria growth by removing water.

• What is dehydration?

• Bacteria-like organisms that are photoautotrophs and perform much of the photosynthesis in the ocean.

• What are blue green algae?

• Killing all bacteria using very high heat.

• What is sterilization?

• Flash heating under boiling point of water, kills most harmful bacteria.

• What is pasteurization?

• One celled organism lacking a nucleus.

• What is a Prokaryote?

• Chemical that helps extend “shelf life” of food.

• What are preservatives?

• Difference between Archaebacteria and Eubacteria.

• What is peptidoglycan?

• Two conditions that increase bacteria growth.

• What are warmer temperature and moisture?

• Name of a microbe ( small organism) that causes disease.

• What is a pathogen?

• Bacterium shaped like a sphere.

• What is cocci?

• Bacterium shaped like a “cocktail weenie”.

• What is Bacilli?

• A common bacterially caused disease.

• What is ……?

• Lytic and Lysogenic

• What are 2 ways viruses make other cells reproduce themselves?

• Toxins and eat your tissue.

• What are the 2 ways bacteria hurt you?

• Plants that have a synergistic relationship with nitrogen producing bacteria.

• What are legumes?

• Name for injecting a weakened virus into an animal to trigger antibody production.

• What is vaccination?

Final Jeopardy

• 4 steps of bacterial binary fission.

• What are 1) DNA replication, 2) DNA attachment to cell membrane, 3) water uptake/ cell elongation, 4) cell splits