Microbiome Vocabulary

too small to be seen with the naked eye

• Scale

• Microscopic

• Microbiome

• Cells

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the tiny structures that make up all living things and are the smallest units able to perform life functions

• Bacteria

• Evidence

• Microbiome

• Cells

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the relative size of things

• scale

• reasoning

• microorganism

• infection

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all of the microorganisms that live in a particular environment, such as a human body

• infection

• microbiome

• antibiotics

• evidence

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a proposed answer to a question about the natural world

• claim

• evidence

• reasoning

• organisms

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medicines that kill microorganisms, especially bacteria

• infection

• antibiotics

• cells

• microbiome

living things, such as plants, animals, and bacteria

• claim

• antibiotics

• microbiome

• organisms

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information about the natural world that is used to support or go against (refute) a claim

• claim

• evidence

• reasoning

• organisms

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sickness caused by harmful microorganisms

• scale

• microbiome

• infection

• bacteria

tiny organisms that are made of a single cell

• cells

• antibiotics

• reasoning

• bacteria

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