Across
- 1. prefers a high concentration of salt
- 4. cannot make its own food
- 5. the time required for a complete binary fission cycle
- 8. requires a small amount of oxygen for metabolism
- 10. prefers a high CO2 environment
- 12. method of bacterial growth where the parent bacterium enlarges, it's DNA gets duplicated, and the cell divides
- 14. a mutually beneficialrelationship
- 15. grows optimally in intermediate temperatures. The majority of clinically significant microbes
- 16. movement of nutrients from a high concentration to a low concentration
- 17. when species within a community compete for recources
- 18. when an environment has a higher concentration of water
Down
- 2. does not use O2 to grow but will not die from it
- 3. grows optimally in cold environments (below 15C)
- 6. informally analyzing a bacterial population size
- 7. one organism benefits from a repationship while the other is neither harmed nor helped
- 9. when an environment has a lower concentration of water
- 11. ingestion of liquids such as oils and molecules in solution
- 13. the movement of nutrients from a low concentration to a high concentration
