Bacteria
Bacteria are single celled organisms found in every habitat on Earth, growing in soil, acidic hot springs, radioactive waste, water, and deep in the Earth's crust, as well as in organic matter and the live bodies of plants and animals. Some bacteria cause disease but others are essential to the human body. For example, bacteria in the digestion system, help in the healthful digestion of food. Sometimes trying to get bacteria out of one place in your body can cause problems in another.
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What part of the bacteria cell helps it stick to surfaces?
Along the surface of the bacteria cell you will find structur...
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What is a practical application of transgenic bacteria?
The best example of transgenic bacteria application is the pr...
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How did early photosynthetic bacteria change earth?
The proteins that gather light for photosynthesis are embedde...
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Why do some bacteria retain the gram stain while some do not?
Gram-negative bacteria have lipopolysaccharide in their outer...
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Why are radiation and chemicals useful for producing mutant bacteria?
Radiation and chemicals cause mutations because the effect th...
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Some bacteria, viruses, parasites, and fungi that can't be se...
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Does a bacteria have a nucleus?
Bacteria lack a true nucleus, a feature that distinguishes th...
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How did Griffith's experiments indicate the presence of a transforming factor in bacteria?
In Griffith's experiment, bacteria from the III-S strain were...
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What would happend if the bacteria that cause denitrification were removed from the nitrogen cycle?
Denitrification is essentially the reverse of nitrification.
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What is a compound that blocks the growth and reproduction of bacteria?
Antibiotics kill or prevent growth of bacteria by their effec...
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How did early photosynthetic bacteria change earth?
The proteins that gather light for photosynthesis are embedde...
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Why are nitrogen-fixing bacteria important to plants?
The most common form of nitrogen (N2) cannot be used by plant...
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Some bacteria, viruses, parasites, and fungi that can't be se...
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What would happen with the bacteria if an insulin gene was inserted into a plasmid?
[1] In terms of genetic modification, recombinant DNA is intr...
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Is a bacteria a prokaryotic cell?
Bacteria are prokaryotic cells (absence of a nucleus and othe...
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Fecal bacteria is bacteria associated with excrement (feces) ...
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How do scientists distinguish between gram-positive and gram-negative bacteria?
Gram staining (or Gram's method) is an empirical method of di...
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What is the role of certain Bacteria on changing atmospheric nitrogen into a form usable by plants?
Bacteria present in the nodules in the leguminous plants cont...
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What does bacteria do for the plant?
Certain types of bacteria break down organic material, like d...
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Where In bacteria is DNA found?
DNA in a bacterial cell is a single strand contained in the c...
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What is the difference between a bacteria and a viruses?
Viruses are tiny structures that can only reproduce inside a ...
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Bacteria has cell walls identified as gram-negative or gram-p...
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What bacteria is that found in?
"Bacillus Thuringiensis" is the bacteria found in the pestici...
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Fecal bacteria is bacteria associated with excrement (feces) ...
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Yep! The prokaryotes are divided into two domains: the bacter...
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What are the bodies three lines of defense against bacteria?
Physical (skin and mucous membranes) and chemical barriers th...
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Bacteria lack a true nucleus, a feature that distinguishes th...
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What does bacteria do for the plant?
Certain types of bacteria break down organic material, like d...
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What is the difference between gram-positive bacteria and gram-negative bacteria?
Gram-negative bacteria are those bacteria that do not retain ...
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Fecal bacteria is bacteria associated with excrement (feces) ...
Recent Bacteria Questions
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Why are radiation and chemicals useful for producing mutant bacteria?
15 min ago - Radiation and chemicals cause mutations because the effect th...
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What type of organisms perform photosythesis?
1 hr 9 min ago - Photosynthesis is the process by which plants, some bacteria,...
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Is yeast a fungus or a bacteria?
1 hr 21 min ago - Yeast and molds belong to a broader family of life called fun...
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What organelle are lysosomes secreted by?
1 hr 31 min ago - Lysosomes are cellular organelles that contain acid hydrolase...
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How does phagocyte destroy bacteria?
2 hr 11 min ago - A phagocyte will engulf the bacteria, in the phagocyte, like ...
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What organisms use alcoholic fermentation?
3 hr 3 min ago - There are many bacteria, including yeast, that use alcoholic ...
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How do prokaryotes differ from each other?
3 hr 7 min ago - Prokaryotes differ from each other based on whether they belo...
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How are restriction enzymes used to make both recombinant dna and transgenic organisms?
3 hr 14 min ago - Yes, restriction enzymes are DNA-cutting enzymes found in bac...
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What an example of a prokaryote?
3 hr 17 min ago - Prokaryotes are unicellular organisms that don't develop into...
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What organelles can DNA be found in?
3 hr 24 min ago - DNA-containing organelles having originated from endosymbiont...
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3 hr 24 min ago - The skin and mucous membranes and unicellular organisms such ...
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What is the bacteria that removes nitrogen from the air called?
3 hr 40 min ago - Nitrofying Bacteria: Bacteria of the genus Nitrosomonas oxidi...
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What does the endosymbiotic theory state?
3 hr 51 min ago - The Endosymbiotic hypothesis originally proposed that: mitoch...
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How are cell walls important to bacterial cells?
3 hr 51 min ago - The cell wall in both plants and bacteria is very important b...
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3 hr 59 min ago - Yes. Cell walls are found in plants, bacteria, fungi, algae, ...
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How fast can bacteria reproduce?
4 hr 11 min ago - There are thousands of different species of bacteria. Some ba...
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What is the difference between a bacteria and a viruses?
4 hr 12 min ago - Viruses are tiny structures that can only reproduce inside a ...
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4 hr 17 min ago - An enzyme which these nitrogen fixation bacteria use is calle...
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Why would some bacteria need a capsule to protect them from white blood cells?
4 hr 38 min ago - Sorry. ChaCha does not understand your question. Your origina...
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Is mildew in the domain bacteria?
4 hr 43 min ago - Mildew is in the domain Eukaryote, so it is not in the same d...