Microbes Vocab

What is fungi?

• Micro organisms that include yeast, molds and mildews

• A cell with no nucleus

• An organism that feeds off a living host

• Organism in the Protista kingdom

What is a protist?

• Plant like protists

• A non-living organism

• A microorganism that feeds of a living host

• Organism in the kingdom Protista

what is algae

• A disease causing agent

• A organism that feeds of a living host

• Plant-like protists

• A living cell where a virus replicates

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what is a host cell?

• a disease causing agent

• A living cell where a virus feeds and replicates

• An organism that makes it's own food

• A cell with organelles and a nucleus

What is bacteria?

• an abnormal state in which the body is not functioning normally

• a plant like protist

• one-celled organism that is more complex than bacteria

• Single celled organism that lack a nucleus

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What is protozoa

• one-celled organisms that are more complex than bacteria

• An organism that feeds on a living host

• Plant like protist

• An organism that feeds on a living host

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What is a pathogen?

• a plant like protista

• A cell that cannot make its own food

• a disease causing agent

• living cell in which a virus replicates

What is an Autotrouph?

• An organism that makes it's own food

• A microorganism that feeds of a host cell

• An organism in the Protista kingdom

• An organism that does not make its own food

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What is a heterotroph?

• a tiny non-living that reproduces using a living cell

• an organism that feeds of a living cell

• An organism that cannot make its own food

• An organism that makes its own food

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What is Microbiology

• A organism that makes it's own food

• An non living particle that uses a living cell

• a fungus

• the study of microorganisms