Download Bacteria Questions and Notes Page

Name: _______________________ Partner Name: ________________ Period: _________
BACTERIA QUESTIONNAIRE
Directions: Click on the RESOURCES icon to find answers to the following questions on the
general background of bacteria. You must each turn this in on the day of your presentation.
1. Where are bacteria found? List 5 places.
2. What did Pasteur contribute to the microbial world?
3. What is the difference between biogenesis and abiogenesis?
4. Who published a paper on anthrax and validated the germ theory of disease?
5. Why is Joseph Lister important? What bacterium did he work with?
6. Discuss Louis Pasteur’s role in microbiology.
7. What type of type did Paul Ehrlich use to stain bacteria?
8. Compare and contrast aerobes, anaerobes and facultative anaerobes.
9. Explain the difference between heterotrophic and autotrophic.
10. Why do bacteria play an important role in the ecosystem?
11. How would you explain decomposition to a 1st grader?
12. Bacteria are (prokaryotic
or
eukaryotic).
Circle one.
13. What is the difference between Gram-positive and Gram-negative bacteria?
14. What organelle helps a bacteria move?
15. What is the function of the glycocalyx?
16. Draw a picture of a general bacterial cell. Include and label the following parts: cell
membrane, cell wall, chromosome, ribosomes, flagella
17. What are the three general shapes of bacteria? Include both the common and scientific
names.
18. How do bacteria reproduce?
19. Name 2 effective uses of bacteria in the pharmaceutical world.
20. How are bacteria used in biotechnology?
21. What is a plasmid? Draw a picture.
22. Who discovered the Gram staining technique? Create a diagram or flowchart showing the
process for both Gram + and Gram -.
Sign up for which component of the webquest that YOU are specifically responsible for.
WANTED poster: ___________________ Powerpoint or Newspaper: ____________________
Research NOTES PAGE for YOUR Bacteria!!
List the name of your bacteria here: ________________________
**This is only a NOTES template. Find out as much as you can about your bacteria as you research! You will be
using these notes to make your poster, powerpoint/newspaper and to be able to answer questions about your
bacteria.
The common and scientific name of the bacteria (Escherichia coli)
The history or background of the bacteria
The shape and gram stain of the bacteria
Draw an image of the bacteria
The disease (s) the microbe causes
The incidence of the bacteria
How the disease is transmitted or contracted
How you can prevent the disease
How you can treat the disease