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