Microbes

Question 0

Penicillin

Answer 0

Alexander Fleming found penicillin

Howard Florey produced it 10 years later.

Question 1

Different types of fungi

Answer 1

Mushrooms
Moulds
Yeasts

Question 2

Fungal diseases

Answer 2

Tinea
Thrush
Ring worm

Question 3

Examples of protists

Answer 3

Euglena
Amoeba
Paracemium
Giardia
Cryptospiridium

Question 4

Viral diseases

Answer 4

Measles
Influenza
Chicken pox
Polio 
AIDS

Question 5

What environment do bacteria like to live in?

Answer 5

Warm moist places

Question 6

Where do protists like to live?

Answer 6

Water or high moist areas

Question 7

4 main groups of microbes

Answer 7

Bacteria
Virus
Fungi
Protists

Question 8

Structure of bacteria

Answer 8

Cell wall
Cell membrane
Cytoplasm
Flagellum

Question 9

What shapes can bacteria be?

Answer 9

Cocci
Bacilli
Spiralla

Question 10

Light microscops

Answer 10

Can magnify from 40-400 times and can view live specimens.

Question 11

Electron microscope

Answer 11

Can magnify from 10000 to 100000 times and CANNOT view live specimens.

Question 12

Breaking off

Answer 12

Mould

When bits of hyphae break off.

Question 13

Releasing spores

Answer 13

Mushrooms

When the sporangium matures and bursts, it releases spores into the air.

Question 14

Budding

Answer 14

Yeast
Parent cell forms a bud on the outer surface then transfers a copy of everything in the bud. A cell wall forms between the bud and the parent cell and the bud breaks off becoming a daughter cell.

Question 15

Invasion

Answer 15

Viruses

The virus attacks a host cell by destroying its cell wall.

Question 16

Binary fission

Answer 16

Protists and bacteria

The cell breaks into two smaller cells and in each cell is a copy of the instructions to produce new cells.

Question 17

Structure of mushroom

Answer 17

Sporangium grows upwards from hyphae.

Question 18

Structure of mould

Answer 18

Produce furry, thread like structures called hyphae.

New fungi can grow from broken bits of hyphae.

Question 19

Structure of virus

Answer 19

DNA or RNA (a chemical containing instructions to produce new virus particles) coated in protein.

Question 20

Micrometre

Answer 20

1.0 x 10 -6 m

Question 21

Nanometre

Answer 21

1.0 x 10 -9 m

Question 22

What can protists be classified as?

Answer 22

Flagellates
Ciliates
Amoeba
Sporozoans

Question 23

Aerobic respiration

Answer 23

Glucose+oxygen=carbon dioxide+water+energy

Question 24

Anaerobic respiration

Answer 24

Glucose=alcohol+carbon dioxide+energy

Question 25

What can protists be classified as?

Answer 25

Flagellates Ciliates Amoeba Sporozoans