Word Work List #21 - Microbes
Across
- 2. - an organism that lives on or in an organism of another species and negatively affects the hosts' health
- 6. - an organism that has characteristics resulting from chromosomal alteration, a mutation
- 7. - comprises the single-celled microscopic animals, which include amoebas, flagellates, and ciliates; some can cause disease
- 10. - bacterium, virus, or other microorganism that can cause disease
Down
- 1. - free-living or colonial organisms with a variety of reproductive and feeding methods
- 3. - very small, usually unicellular organisms, lacking chlorophyll
- 4. - living cell in which a virus can actively multiply or in which a virus can hide until activated by environmental stimuli
- 5. - strand of hereditary material surrounded by a protein coating that can infect and multiply in a host cell
- 6. - microorganism
- 8. - simple non-flowering plant of a large group that includes the seaweeds and many single- celled forms; contain chlorophyll
- 9. - members of the kingdom Fungi, including molds, mushrooms and some types of slime