Marine Microbes Vocab

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Across
  1. 2. organism that breaks down dead organic matter
  2. 5. virus that reproduces when their nucleic acid becomes part of the host's genome
  3. 8. a short, hair-like flagellum
  4. 10. filaments of fungi
  5. 11. an extensive bloom of phytoplankton
  6. 15. a photosynthetic organism that lives on algae or plants
  7. 16. use the sun to make energy
  8. 19. an organism from a microscopic domain
  9. 22. the silicious, box-like cell well of diatoms
  10. 23. lacking oxygen
  11. 25. outer protein coat of virus
  12. 26. virus that infects bacteria
  13. 28. cyanobacteria that burrow into rocks and coral
  14. 29. virus that contains RNA instead of DNA
  15. 30. organic matter that is dissolved in water rather than being in particles
Down
  1. 1. use chemicals to make energy
  2. 3. the resistant stage of diatoms that restores the maximum size characteristic to the species
  3. 4. bacteria that carry out decomposition
  4. 6. one of a group of yellow, orange, and red plant pigments
  5. 7. made of calcium carbonate
  6. 9. the organism that results from the symbiosis of a fungus and an alga
  7. 12. type of earth derived from the skeletons of diatoms
  8. 13. a sudden increase in the abundance of an alga or phytoplankton
  9. 14. conversion of nitrogen gas to usable nitrogen for autotrophs
  10. 17. the test of a ciliate
  11. 18. non-cellular particles containing DNA/RNA that infect other living cells
  12. 20. the calcium carbonate "shell" of marine protozoans
  13. 21. a thin or blunt extension of the cytoplasm
  14. 24. an inert or resting stage of a dinoflagellate
  15. 27. a photosynthetic organism that lives within the cells or tissue of plants/algae