Unit 7 Vocab Words
Across
- 4. A medicine that kills bacteria or slows their growth
- 5. proteins that speed up chemical reactions.That can help build up or break down compounds
- 7. An infectious microbe consisting of a segment of either DNA or RNA surrounded by a protein coat
- 9. Temporarily inactive
- 10. The process by which bacteria transfer genetic material to one another through direct contact
Down
- 1. single-celled prokaryotes,including some that cause disease
- 2. Bacteria develop the ability to defeat the drugs designed to kill them
- 3. Fission A type of asexual reproduction where one cell produces two identical daughter cells
- 6. Tough spore that allows bacteria to withstand freezing,drying out and heating
- 8. A preparation of a weakened or dead form of a pathogen that causes an organism to develop immunity against the pathogen