1. What is a colony?

Answer: A group of celss that are similar and attached to one another.


2. What two pigments do all blue-green bacteria have in common?

Answer: Phycocyanin (blue) and Chlorophyll (green)


3. Name the three groups that most bacteria are divided into.

Answer: cocci - spheres; bacilli - rods; spirilla - spirals


4. What is the process by which most bacteria cells divide?

Answer: binary fission


5. Name two ways that bacteria exchange genetic material.

Answer: conjugation and transformation