Show your Knowledge- Microbiology!

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  1. 3. The study of tiny living things.
  2. 5. This microbe is also known as tiny "one celled animals"
  3. 7. Tiny living things can make fuel from plants — this eco-friendly fuel is called ________.
  4. 10. Helpful bacteria found in yogurt or your digestive system.
  5. 11. The actual country of origin of the Spanish Flu
  6. 13. A virus carried by animals like raccoons and bats that affects the nervous system.
  7. 15. Eating food with harmful bacteria can give you this unpleasant illness.
  8. 20. Single-celled organisms that can be helpful or harmful; some live in your gut.
  9. 22. The process where microbes turn sugar into gas or acids to make bread, yogurt, or kimchi.
  10. 25. This was invented to safely teach our immune systems to fight dangerous infectious diseases
  11. 27. A microorganism that must invade a host cell to reproduce.
  12. 28. Fungi release these tiny “seeds” that help them spread.
Down
  1. 1. Bacteria in your mouth can cause these tiny holes in your teeth.
  2. 2. Algae that live in the ocean and form the base of the food chain.
  3. 4. A fungus that grows in warm, damp places and can spoil food.
  4. 6. A type of microorganism that can be “globular,” “spiral,” or “rod-shaped.”
  5. 7. Fleas, rats, and germs together helped spread this deadly medieval disease.
  6. 8. Some organisms make their own light — this glowing is called ________.
  7. 9. Organism that is not a plant or animal but absorbs nutrients from other things.
  8. 12. A naturally glowing type of fungus found in forests.
  9. 14. A microorganism that can cause the flu.
  10. 16. This disease spread by fleas in the Middle Ages was called the “Black _____.”
  11. 17. Nipah virus is spread by which animal?
  12. 18. Spoiled or undercooked chicken can spread this common food-poisoning bacteria.
  13. 19. A Korean food made by fermenting cabbage with helpful bacteria.
  14. 21. Green, plant-like microbes that make their own food through photosynthesis.
  15. 23. Yeast helps bread dough do this.
  16. 24. Protozoa move using tiny hair-like structures called ________.
  17. 26. This type of fly is known to cause the sleeping sickness
  18. 29. Algae blooms can turn the water this color.