chapter 25

________ is a set of guidelines to demonstrate that a specific pathogen causes specific disease symptoms.

Koch's postulates

_______ is a relationship in which one partner benefits and the other is neither harmed nor helped.

commensalism

the purpose of ______ is to transmit DNA between bacteria.

sex pili

what is a chain of round bacteria called?

streptococci

bacterial conjugation is related to horizontal ______

wall

prokaryotes divide using a process called _____

binary fission

a bacterium that uses the oxidation of inorganic compounds to provide energy from manufacturing nutritious organic compounds is known as a ______

chemo autotroph

some bacteria respond to adverse environmental conditions by forming an _______

endospore

small hairlike structures made up of protein on the surface of bacteria are called ______

fimbride

bacterial cells can keep from bursting in a hypotonic environment because of a rigid cell _____

gene transfer