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| a tiny, nonliving particle that enters and then reproduces inside a living cell |
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| an organism that provides a source of energy for a virus or other organism |
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| an organism that lives on or in a host and causes it harm |
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| a substance introduced in the body to help produce chemicals that destroy specific viruses |
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| prokaryotes that lack a nucleus |
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| a gel like fluid that moves structures throughout the cell |
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| chemical factories where proteins are produced |
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| long, whip-like structure that helps a cell move |
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| the process of breaking down food to release energy |
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| one cell divides to form two identical cells |
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| type of sexual reproduction where one bacterium transfers some of its genetic material into another bacterium through a thin, threadlike bridge |
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| a small, rounded, thick-walled resting cell that forms inside a bacterial cell |
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| when food is heated to a temperature high enough to kill harmful bacteria without changing the taste of the food. |
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| organisms that break down large, complex chemicals in dead organisms into small, simpler chemicals |
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| eukaryotes that cannot be classified at plants, animals, or fungi |
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| animal-like protists that are unicellular |
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| temporary bulges of a cell |
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| a structure that collects and expels excess water from the cell |
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| hair-like projections that beat with a wave-like motion, moving an organism |
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| plant-like protists that are autotrophs, can be unicellular or multicellular, and use pigments to capture the sun's energy |
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| chemicals that produce color |
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| a tiny cell that is able to grow into a new organism |
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| eukaryotes that have cell walls, are heterotrophs that feed by absorbing their food, and use spores to reproduce |
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| branching, thread-like tubes that make up the bodies of multicellular fungi |
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| spores in reproductive structures |
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| a type of asexual reproduction where a new organism grows from the body of the parent organism |
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| consists of a fungus and either algae or autotrophic bacteria that live together in a relationship that benefits both organisms |
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