Viruses and Bacteria

2. an organism that breaks down chemicals from wastes and dead organisms and returns important materials to the soil and water
5. a long whip like structure that helps a cell to move
6. the organism that a parasite or virus lives in or on
7. the organism that benefits by living on or in a host in a parasitism interaction
9. a reproduction process that involves two parents that combine their genetic material to produce a new organism
10. a small rounded thick walled resting cell that forms inside a bacterial cell
12. a substance used in a vaccination that consist of weakened or killed pathogens that can trigger the immune system into action
13. a form of asexual reproduction in which one cell divides to form two identical cells
14. a virus that infects bacteria

1. a reproductive process that involves only one parent and produces offspring that are identical to the parent
3. a process of heating food to a temperature that is high enough to kill most harmful bacteria without changing the taste of the food
4. single-celled organism that lack a nucleus
8. a tiny nonliving particle that invades and then reproduces inside a living cell
11. the process in which a unicellular organism transfers some of its genetic material to another unicellular organism