| A | B |
|---|
| sterilization | heating or boiling medical tools to high temperatures to kill the bacteria on them |
| pasteurization | heating milk or wine to medium high temperatures enough to kill the bacteria in them but not change the taste (from 140 to 160 degrees F) |
| vaccination | injecting someone with a tiny amount of weakened disease-causing bacteria so their body will make antibodies against them |
| polio | virus-caused disease that paralyzed many young children before the 1950's; adults could be victims (President F.D.Rooseveldt was one) |
| smallpox | virus-caused disease that was wiped out around the world in the late 1960's |
| conjunctivitis | virus-caused disease that is also known as pink-eye |
| rabies | virus-caused disease that is also called hydrophobia |
| AIDS | virus-caused disease that attacks a person's immune system |
| cheese and yogurt | flavors of these are due to certain beneficial bacteria |
| tanning leather | an occupation that would be impossible without certain beneficial bacteria |
| nitrogen fixing | name of certain useful bacteria that help crops grow better |
| binary fission | means by which all bacteria reproduce (another name for simple cell division or "mitosis") |
| colony | name given to describe thousands of bacterial cells growing in one little clump |
| tuberculosis | a bacteria-caused disease that affects the lungs and breathing |
| anthrax | a bacteria-caused disease that primarily affects sheep, but can sicken or kill humans |
| tetanus | a bacteria-caused disease that can be called "lockjaw"; the bacteria enters through a deep puncture wound |
| cholera | a bacteria-caused disease which killed Louis Pasteur's young daughter, Camille |
| blight | a bacteria-caused disease in plants; an epidemic of it in Ireland in the 1850's killed all the potato plants and people were starving |
| Louis Pasteur | scientist in the 1800's who believed that tiny, unseen organisms (bacteria) were making wine go sour or making people get diseases |
