This printable crossword puzzle on the topic of Microbiology has 22 clues. Answers range from 4 to 15 letters long. This crossword is also available to download as a Microsoft Word document or a PDF.
Single-celled or uncomplicated multicellular eukaryotic organisms that usually do not categorize into any other kingdom.
Big, rounded cytoplasmic extensions that operate both in movement and feeding.
Autotrophic protists.
Some species of Dinoflagellates that undergo the creation of light by means of a chemical reaction.
Flagellated unicellular algae in the phylum Euglenophyta.
Sporozoans that have been released from the oocyst and are ready to invade a new host cell.
The infective stage of the plasmodial life cycle, when it corrupts the red blood cells of the host organism.
Merozoites in the blood cells that advance into the sexual forms of the parasite.
A sticky polysaccharide that covers the cell walls of certain species of red algae. This is also used in the food industry to manipulate the texture of many food products.
A gel-like polysaccharide compound used for culturing microbes. It is derived from certain red algae.
In prokaryotes and protists, the movement approaching or away from a chemical stimulus, like the migration toward food or away from a toxin.
Fungi that develop in the form of a disordered mass of filaments.
Small, unicellular fungi whose colonies are similar to that of bacteria.
A sexual reproductive construction that includes a nucleus of a mating type.
In members of the phylum Zygomycota, a sexual structure that is made by the blend of two gametangia and that has one or more zygotes that emerged from the fusion of gametes produced by the gametangia.
A symbiotic partnership between fungi and plant roots.
A mass of cells made by a fungus in symbiosis with a photosynthetic participant. They usually grow on nutrient-poor surfaces.
Structures that produce asexual spores in basidiomycetes.
A structure of a basidiomycete that produces sexual spores.
Asexual spores made by basidia.
Unicellular algae that have a double shell that have silica.
A population increase of specific marine dinoflagellates that provoke the water to turn a red or red-brown color and to contain poisonous alkaloids made by the dinoflagellates.