Microorganisms and Their Roles

Important in the food industry for breads and fermentation

• Fungi

• Archaea

• Bacteria

• Protists

Extremophiles

• Bacteria

• Archaea

• Protista

• Algae

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS1-5

NGSS.MS-LS2-1

NGSS.MS-LS4-4

Term that means capable of causing a disease or illness

• Prokaryote

• Eukaryote

• Pathogenic

• Microscopic

Parasitic worms

• Algae

• Helminths

• Archaea

• Protists

Contain DNA or RNA, never both

• Archaea

• Fungi

• Virus

• Algae

Not considered living

• Virus

• Archaea

• Fungi

• Bacteria

Produce half of all atmospheric oxygen

• Fungi

• Algae

• Archaea

• Bacteria

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS1-6

Control aquatic bacterial populations.

• Archaea

• Algae

• Helminths

• Protists

Microscopic eggs or larva can be inhaled or ingested

• Algae

• Helminths

• Protists

• Archaea

Lack a membrane bound nucleus

• Prokaryote

• Eukaryote