Across
- 1. A jelly extracted from seaweed, it may contain nutrients needed by microbes
- 2. An organism (micro organism) that causes disease
- 4. Completely free from microbes
- 6. Not visible to the naked eye, only through a microscope
- 9. The breakdown of large food particles into smaller ones that can be dissolved
- 11. A carrier that transmits disease form one organism to another
- 12. Organism that feeds on a living host causing it harm
Down
- 1. A substance that kills microbes
- 3. Thread like structure, part of a fungus that grows and feeds, and may eventually produce a fruiting body
- 5. body The part of a fungus that produces spores for reproduction
- 6. Unit of length. 1 micrometer is a thousandth of a millimeter
- 7. Grow microbes in a petri dish containing agar or broth
- 8. A liquid containing water and food for microbes
- 10. An organism in or on which a parasites lives
- 13. Dissolves (usually in water)