Across
- 4. single-celled prokaryotes, including some that cause disease.
- 7. Bacteria develop the ability to defeat the drugs designed to kill them.
- 9. The process by which bacteria transfer genetic material to one another through direct contact.
Down
- 1. A medicine that kills bacteria or slows their growth.
- 2. A preparation of a weakened or dead form of a pathogen that causes an organism to develop immunity against the pathogen.
- 3. An infectious microbe consisting of a segment of either DNA or RNA surrounded by a protein coat.
- 4. A type of asexual reproduction, where one cell produces two identical daughters.
- 5. Proteins that speed up chemical reactions. That can help build up or break down compounds.
- 6. Temporarily inactive.
- 8. Tough spore that allows bacteria to withstand freezing, drying out and heating.