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Chapter One
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Microbiology
Undergraduate 1
03/25/2011

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Name the three types of asexual reproduction
Definition
binary fission, budding, and spores
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EUKARYOTES
Definition
Membrane-bound nucleus and organelles (which have specific cell functions and shapes), divide by mitosis and cell walls are simple.
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PROKARYOTES
Definition
Bacteria that doesn't have DNA or internal structures membrane bound. Usually divided by binary fission and have complex cell walls of peptidoglycan.
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Heterotrophs obtain energy as
Definition
Other feeders that feed on other's organic material for energy.
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Autotrophs obtain energy by
Definition
Self feeders that obtain their own energy from sunlight called photoautotrophs or from chemicals called chemoautotrophs.
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Detritivores obtain energy by
Definition
Living on dead organic matter.
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Another name for Heterotrophs and Autotrophs are...
Definition
Heterotrophs= consumers
Autotrophs= producers
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Why is oil immersion used with the highest magnification?
Definition
Oil has the same refractive index of glass so light waves don't stray.
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What are the 3 basic shapes of bacteria?
Definition
Cocci, bacillus, and spiral
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What are the three bacterial patterns?
Definition
diplo- pairs
strepto- chains
staphlo- clusters
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What are the two types of glycocalyx
Definition
It's the slime layer which helps bacteria attach to surfaces and the capsule which protects against phagocytosis.
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What is taxis?
Definition
The movement of bacteria towards favorable conditions or away from adverse ones
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What is chemotaxis and phototaxes
Definition
The stimulus is chemicals and second is light.
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What are the four flagellar arrangements?
Definition
Monotrichous, amphitrichous, lopotrichous, peritrchous
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Monotrichous
Definition
Having a single flagellum at one end
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Amphitrichous
Definition
Having a tuft of 2 or more flagella at each end.
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Lopotrichous
Definition
Having a tuft at one end
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Peritrichous
Definition
Having multiple flagella all over the cell.
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What are the structures outside the cell wall?
Definition
Flagella, axial filaments, fimbriae, pili
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What ARE flagella
Definition
Long, filamentous appendages used for motility
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Endoflagella
Definition
Axial filaments found in spirochetes that gives motility in a corkscrew motion
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Fimbriae
Definition
Found in gram negative bacteria that are hair-like appendages that allow them to cling or stick to surfaces
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Pili
Definition
Sexual-like structures that can join 2 bacteria to exchange DNA.
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Peptidoglycan in Gram Positive and Negative Bacteria
Definition
Gram positive has much more peptidoglycan.
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What are the methods of passive transport across the cytoplasmic membrane
Definition
simple diffusion (higher to lower concentration), facilitated diffusion (higher to lower with a required transporter protein), osmosis (water from higher to lower), osmosis in isotonic solutions (solutes according to equal concentration.
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What is a plasmid?
Definition
It's the small structure in a cell that contains DNA and is used to transfer info to another bacteria like antibiotic resistance.
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Where would someone find endospores?
Definition
In gram positive bacteria and are formed when conditions become difficult for the bacteria to survive. They go into basically a mini-coma and then
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Germination is---
Definition
The endospores (which formed in yucky conditions) turn back into a normal bacteria when conditions are perfect again.
Term
What are the types of eukaryotic cell walls?
Definition
Algae have cellulose cell-walls
Most fungi- chitin
Yeast- glucan and mannan
Protozoans- capsule-like pellicle.
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Cilia
Definition
Short hair-like structures used for locomotion.
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A form of active transport in Eukaryotes only-
Definition
Endocytosis. Two types
1. Phagocytosis (cell eating)
2. Pinocytosis (cell drinking)
Term
DNA is in-
Definition
The mitochondria and Nucleus
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What is the Endosymbiotic Theory?
Definition
Larger prokaryotes became eukaryotes after taking in the smaller prokaryotes and learned how to survive together.
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Simple and special stains
Definition
One color vs many.
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Special stains
Definition
Stain special cell structures as endospores and flagella
Term
two types of differential stains
Definition
acid-fast stain (Mycobacterium like TB)
Gram stain- positive (purple) negative (pink)
Term
Bacteria in the Domain Archaea
Definition
Prokaryotes that lack a cell wall or they'll have a cell well with no peptidoglycan.
Term
What are the three groups of bacteria in the Domain Archaea-
Definition
Methanogens (make methane from CO2 and Hydrogen)
Extreme halophiles (require a salt concentration to live)
Hyperthermophiles (grow in hot acidic environments)
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How are Domain Bacteria divided?
Definition
TWO groups of gram positive bacteria and the gram negative- which has 2 subdividisions of the proteobacteria (most of the chemoheterotrophic bacteria) and nonproteobacteria (mainly just the photsynthetic bacteria
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Protists Groups
Definition
Plant-like, animal like, fungi-like
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Plant-like protists
Definition
red, green, and brown algae, and dinoflagellates (plankton) and diatoms.
Term
Animal-like Protists
Definition
Rhizopoda (amoeboids), Ciliophora or ciliates, Archaezoa (Mastigophora) or flagellates like Giardia or Trichomonas, the Apicomplexans, sporozoa like Toxoplasma, Malaria, and Cryptosporidium.
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Fungi-like Protists
Definition
Structural parts that is the substrate they grow on for nourishment and the aerial portion that produces spores.
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A maMycelium
Definition
A mass of fungal hyphae and spores is a hairy mass.
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Taxomony
Definition
Classification of organisms by their characteristics
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