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| An organism that causes disease |
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| An organism that feeds on dead matter |
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| An organism that feeds on a living host |
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| An organism that requires oxygen |
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| An organism that does not require oxygen |
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| A state in which members of a population die as quickly as new members are born |
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| Population growth that is unhindered because of the abundance of resources for an ever-increasing population |
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| Population growth that is controlled by limited resources |
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| A temporary union of two organisms for the purpose of DNA transfer |
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| A small, circular section of DNA that confers one or more traits to a bacterium and can be reproduced seperately from the main bacterial genetic code |
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| the transfer of a DNA segment from a nonfunctional donor cell to that of a functional recipient cell |
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| The process in which infection by a virus results in DNA being transferred from one bacterium to another |
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| The DNA and other essential parts of a bacterium coated with several hard layers |
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| Organisms from the same species that have markedly different traits |
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