Bacteria crossword

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Across
  1. 1. a taxonomic class of bacteria that includes two orders, Bacillales and Lactobacillales
  2. 4. microscopic single-celled organism that has neither a distinct nucleus with a membrane nor other specialized organelles.
  3. 6. organism, especially a soil bacterium, fungus, or invertebrate, that decomposes organic material.
  4. 10. Aerobes organism that requires oxygen to grow.
  5. 11. an organism deriving its nutritional requirements from complex organic substances.
  6. 13. is an organism that can produce its own food using light, water, carbon dioxide, or other chemicals
  7. 14. an organism causing disease to its host
  8. 16. Anaerobes organism which can only live in environments which lack oxygen.
  9. 19. a species of bacteriophages that infect Escherichia coli bacteria
  10. 21. a substance used to stimulate immunity to a particular infectious disease or pathogen
Down
  1. 2. the state where a host cell contains one or more prophages in which the lytic genes are repressed by the phage-encoded repressor.
  2. 3. is a type of virus that inserts a DNA copy of its RNA genome into the DNA of a host cell that it invades, thus changing the genome of that cell.
  3. 5. medicines that fight bacterial infections in people and animals
  4. 7. a substance forming the cell walls of many bacteria, consisting of glycosaminoglycan chains interlinked with short peptides.
  5. 8. the process of making something free from bacteria or other living microorganisms.
  6. 9. microorganisms that are similar to bacteria in size and simplicity of structure but radically different in molecular organization
  7. 12. any spherical or roughly spherical bacterium.
  8. 15. a bacterium of a large group typically having simple cells with rigid cell walls and often flagella for movement
  9. 17. elating to or causing lysis.
  10. 18. another term for mirid.
  11. 20. Wall surrounds the plasma membrane of plant cells and provides tensile strength and protection against mechanical and osmotic stress