Microbiology Crossword Puzzle
by Cynthia V. Sommer, Ph.D., MT(ASCP)
Across
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Sugars in nucleic acid
Maintains pH
Phase of bacterial growth
Unit of electrical resistance
Acid (opp.)
Simple sugar
Nanometers (abbr.)
Procaryotic microorganisms
Bacterial appendage
Living at another's expense
High-energy transfer c o m p o u n d
(abbr.)
Detects pH change
Heat-resistant bacterial cell
Kills bacteria
First letter of Creek alphabet
C o m p o u n d composed of joined
subunits
Genetic recombination
Like
Cytopathic effect (abbr.)
Cellular condition needed for
transformation
Mass of microbes on agar
Type of vaccine (abbr.)
Ability to exist in t w o forms
Blood fluids
Environment for cryophiles and
halophiles
Five-carbon sugar
Milk protein
Causes f o o d poisoning
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Bacterial cell wall amino acid
Closed (opp.)
Tropical skin infection
Chemistry of life
Body cell
Chemical unions
Micrograms (abbr.)
Type of protozoan
Codes for antibiotic resistance
Hubert H u m p h r e y (abbr.)
spore (fungal)
Cynthia V. Sommer, Ph.D., MT(ASCP),
is with the Department of Zoology/Microbiology, College of Letters and Science,
at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.
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Cell-mediated immunity (abbr.)
Venereal disease (abbr.)
Simple cell in Protista kingdom
National Institutes of Health
(abbr.)
Hydrogen peroxide-degradating
enzyme
Bacterial virus
Lysine (abbr.)
Afternoon or evening (abbr.)
Male p r o n o u n
34. Microbial invasions
35. Sporozoa protozoan
41. Organic nitrogenous
macromolecule
43. C h r o m o s o m e segment
44. Type of fungus (pi.)
47. M o d i f i e d leaf of flower
51. Gonococcus (abbr.)
52. Electron microscopy (abbr.)
(Answers
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