Across
- 7. use of organisms to clean up environmental pollution
- 8. medicine that stops the growth and reproduction of bacteria
- 10. process of heating food to a temperature that kills most harmful bacteria
- 12. change in DNA or RNA
- 13. protein that can attach to a pathogen and make it useless
- 16. conversion of atmospheric nitrogen into nitrogen compounds that living things can use
Down
- 1. capacity of an organism to defend itself against disease
- 2. cell division that forms two genetically identical cells
- 3. mixture containing material from one or more deactivated pathogens
- 4. process in which two bacteria of the same species attach to each other and share genetic material
- 5. ability of an organism to resist a virus or infection
- 6. breakdown of dead organisms and organic waste
- 9. microscopic prokaryote
- 11. agent that causes disease
- 14. long whiplike structure that helps some bacteria move
- 15. strand of DNA or RNA surrounded by a protein layer that can infect and replicate in a host cell
- 17. form of bacterium that has a thick internal wall around its chromosome and part of the cytoplasm