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The study of organisms too small to be seen by the unaided eye. |
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How small can the eye see until? |
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What are the three domains? |
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bacteria, archaea, eukarya |
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Why Study micro? Indigenous microbiota? |
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Why Study micro? Microbial ecology |
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Why Study micro? Decomposers - what they do and one example |
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Why Study micro? Bioremediation |
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What are the "microbes for society?" |
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bioremediation and biotechnology |
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Why Study micro? Entire list (8) |
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indigenous microbiota, microbial ecology, decomposers, model organisms, bioremediation, biotechnology, antibiotics, infectious disease |
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What is the scope of microbiology? 5 things |
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Bacteriology, mycology, phycology, protozoology, and virology |
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What is bacteriology study? |
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The study of viruses, viroids and prions |
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What does general microbiology encompass (four things) |
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biochemistry, physiology, ecology, and taxonomy |
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What is applied microbiology? 5 things |
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industrial, food, agricultural, environmental, biotechnology |
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What is medical microbiology? 6 things |
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pathogenic, diagnostic, veterinary, epidemiology, immunology, medical virology |
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What are nosocomial infections? |
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developing an infection - resistant so 100k people die. |
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How are nosocomial infections started? |
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people don't wash their hands |
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Who discovered bacteria, yeast, algae and protozoa? |
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bacteria, yeast, algae, protozoa |
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What were some major areas that people questioned in the 1700s to mid 1800s? |
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pleomorphism vs monomorphism, transformation of organic matter, spontaneous generation |
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who was the father of bacteriology? |
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Who proved monomorphism of microbes? |
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How was monomorphism of microbes discovered? |
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Who discovered the anthrax and rabies vaccine? |
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Who discovered anaerobic life? |
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Who disproved spontaneous generation? |
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Who discovered that transformations of organic matter was due to microbes (decomposing i think) |
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Who discovered the bacterial causation of anthrax? |
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Who came up with the idea that each bacteria has one disease |
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Who had the principles of infection? |
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Review experiment with rats |
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What did German schools focus on |
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isolation, cultivation, and characterization of infectious agents |
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What did French school focus on? |
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how infectious diseases takes place and how recovery and immunity occur |
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What are the main causes of death of the US now |
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What are bacteria expressed in? |
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What are viruses expressed in? |
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what two measurements do we need to know? |
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How are ocular movements are calibrated? |
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how is calibration performed? |
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What colors of light are used in microscopes |
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What do you need to be able to distinguish two adjacent points? |
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what is empty magnification? |
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increased magnification without increased resolving power |
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What is light microscopy limit? |
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What resolving power was van Leeuwenhoek's microscope? |
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Simple microscopes - 2 points form slides |
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one magnifying lens 3-20x magnification |
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How many lenses do compound microscopes have? |
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what is a modern compound's light 'scopes'? |
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What are the objective lenses for compound microscopes? |
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What is the equation for total magnification? |
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What does a darkfield microscope do? |
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illuminates objects against a dark background |
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What kind of resolving power does a darkfield microscope have? |
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How do you see the bacteria in a darkfield microscope? |
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you see it reflecrted off of the bacteria |
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What is the concept behind a phase contrast microscope |
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cells differ in refractive index from that of the medium |
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TF Phase contrast microscopes are stained |
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What do PED nurses use to help diagnose whooping cough? |
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Fluorescence Microscopes: What stimulates dyes, pigments to fluoresce |
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How many colors does a fluoresence microscope have? |
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Where are fluorescence microscopes used? |
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clinical microbio, microbial ecology |
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What type of microscope can't use lenses? |
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What are the illumination sources in electron microscopes |
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what focus the beam on electron microscopes? |
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What microscope has a much higher magnification resolution? |
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Are organisms alive in Electron microscopes? |
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What are the three main points of Transmission electron microscopy? |
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it studies the internal structure of cells, requires thin sections, high mag/resolution |
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Two main points of scanning electron microscopy |
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external features and intact cells |
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What kind of microscope discovered smallpox? |
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chemistry dealing with the chemical compounds and processes occurring in living things |
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Who said that biochem was the molecular logic of living organisms? |
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What are the guts of microorganisms? |
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everything in a cell: defined by it, interact with each other through it |
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What are the strongest bonds? |
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How many elements are required by living organisms? |
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22, 16 are found in all organism |
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What are the most abundant compounds in living matter? |
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What elements have the strongest covalent bonds? |
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What configuration is carbon? |
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What element can form the most stable molecules of different shapes and sizes? |
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What has high specific heat and high surface tension? |
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What are polysaccharides (very basic) |
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What is teh CHO ratio of carbs? |
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What are the monomeric units of polysaccharides? |
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What are the bonds for polysaccharides? |
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glycosidic bonds ( covalent bonds ) |
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What are the different kinds of saccharides? |
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chemically the same but put together differently |
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What do polysaccharides function as? 2 things |
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carbon and energy reserves cell wall components |
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What is in cell walls of bacteria? |
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What determines the type of polysaccharide it is? |
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what is the most common biopolymer? |
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glycerol bonded to fatty acids and other groups (such as phosphate by an ester or ether linkage |
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What types of bonds are found in archaea? |
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chains of carbons atoms with a single carboxylic acid group |
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Simple lipid (aka and definition) |
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triglyceride : 3 fatty acids bound to a glycerol molecule |
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TF lipids are macromolecules |
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False: monomers are not linked by covalent bonds |
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simple lipids containing additional elements or small carbon compounds |
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lipids containing a phosphate group |
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TF the phospholipid bilayer is a solid structure |
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What are the monomers of nucleic acids? |
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what type of bond is the nucleic acids |
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What are 2 examples of nucleic acids? |
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What are the three types of RNA |
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What are the two bases of nucleic acids? |
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What are the three different structures of DNA? |
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complementary, primary and secondary |
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What is the monomeric unit of proteins? |
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What type of bonds join proteins |
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oligopeptides are ____ amino acids |
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TF proteins are catalytic |
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What are the structural proteins making up? 3 |
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membranes, cell walls, cytoplasmic components |
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Chemical properties of proteins come from what? |
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Protein structure: Primary |
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amino acid sequence of a polypeptide chain |
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Protein structure: Secondary |
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twisting or folding of polypeptide in two dimensions |
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Protein structure: Tertiary structure |
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3 dimensional folding of a polypeptide |
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Protein structure: Quaternary |
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the arrangement of polypeptide subunits to form the final protein |
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What do you need to have quaternary structure in proteins? |
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What stabilize chains in proteins? |
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How do proteins maintain interactions? |
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What helps to stabilize tertiary structures more than H |
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How do sulfur groups help to stabilize? |
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they oppose each other on opposite ends and stabilize |
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How does urea affect proteins? |
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it allows H bonds to reform |
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taking away what allows the cell to break what makes the bond |
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Who coined the word 'cells' |
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What two people discovered that plant and animal tissues were composed of cells? |
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matthias schleiden and theodor schwann |
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Who came up with the theory of biogenesis |
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What is the theory of biogenesis? |
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all living cells come from living cells |
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What are the 6 characteristics of living cells? |
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metabolism, reproduction, differentiation, communication, movement, evolution |
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What has membrane organelles? |
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What has no internal divisions |
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TF it is more difficult to work in one big space |
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What are the acellular microorganisms |
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viroids, prions and viruses |
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What are the two types of cellular microorganisms |
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prokaryotes and eukaryotes |
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What are the types of prokaryotes? |
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archaea, bacteria, and cyanobacteria |
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What are the types of eukaryotes? |
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algae, protozoa and fungi |
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Order prokaryote, eukaryotic cell and virus in order from smallest to largest |
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(systematics) the art of biological classification |
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how they are phylogenetically related |
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identify microbe that is causing the problems |
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TF all classification work to show phylogenetic relation |
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Classification types: Artificial vs. Natural |
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phylogenetic classifications |
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Classification types: phenotypic |
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based on observational characteristics |
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Classification types: Genotypic |
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based on nucleic acid sequence data |
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Classification types: Polyphasic |
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uses both phenotypic and genotypic data |
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What are the classifications of living organisms |
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Domain, kingdom, phylum, class, order, family, genus, species |
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Who came up with the binomial system? |
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species name = genus name + specific epithet |
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What are the two kingdoms *(in the two kingdom system)? |
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What was the first natural classification? |
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What are the 5 kingdoms in the 5 kingdom system? |
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plants, fungi, animals, protists (euk) and monera (prok) |
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Who came up with the 5 domain system? |
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Who came up with the 3 domain system? |
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3 domain system: 3 ribosomal molecules |
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5S, 16S, 23S (small subunit sequencing |
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3 domain system: two domains of proks - |
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3 domain system: dom. what? |
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What are the major structures of the prok cell? |
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cytoplasmic membrane, cell wall, cytoplasm, inclusions, nucleoid, glycocalyx, flagella, pili and fimbrae, endospores |
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How think is the cytoplasmic membrane |
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What completely surrounds the cell? |
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What establishes the integrity of the cell? |
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What is referred to the fluid mosaic? |
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Where do you find the phospholipid bilayer? |
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Why do you want to increase surface area in the cytoplasmic membrane? |
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What are the 3 main functions of the cytoplasmic membrane? |
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permeability barrier, protein anchor, energy conservation |
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What provides rigidity in proks? |
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What keeps bacterial cells from lysing? Why would they lyse? |
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cell wall - turgor pressure would cause them to lyse |
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multilayered, complex (lipid) pink |
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single layer, thicker (peptidoglycan) - purple |
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What gives the cell wall of gram positive a negative charge? |
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What starts reaction to increase the cell wall? |
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TF the cell was can lyse itself |
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Cell wall of proks - what is it's second layer? |
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What two things does a gram negative outer membrane contain? |
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polysaccharides, proteins and lipids |
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What forms in the cell wall of proks to form lipopolysaccharides? |
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lipids and polysaccharides |
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Gram (-) bacteria that got through the saline into a patient (dialysis) that will kill them. We have some naturally occurring in our system. |
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How is DNA arranged in a prok? |
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a single circular molecule, has a nucleoid and plasmids |
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a small, circular extrachromosomal DNA |
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DNA in proks: What is the chromosome copy number? |
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the cell does not rely on genes "it is nice to have genes" |
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How does the E. Coli nucleoid control DNA in a prok? |
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by curling up in the cell |
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Define bacterial flagella |
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long, thin appendages free at one end and attached to the cell at the other end |
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What is the flagellar arrangement |
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polar, lophotrichous, perithrichous |
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protein subunit of flagella |
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What is the purpose to the P Ring? |
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it anchors the flagella in the cell. There are 2 in the middle and 1 in the outer membrane |
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What is structurally similar to flagella but not involved in movement? |
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TF Fimbriae is shorter than flagella |
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TF Fimbriae is acquired throughout life |
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F: it is an inherited trait |
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What enables cells to adhere to surfaces |
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What forms pellicles or biofilms? |
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TF pili are longer than fimbriae |
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What structure do you only have one or two per cell? |
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What serve as receptors for certain viruses? |
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What is involved in conjugation |
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What is involved in attaachment of certain pathogenic bacteria to tissues? |
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the polysaccaride material lying outside the cell |
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What are the two parts of the glycocalyx? |
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the capsule and slime layer |
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a rigid, tight matric that can exclude particles |
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easily deformed, does not exclude particles, hard to see |
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What are the fxns of glycocalyx |
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attachment of pathogens, protection from phagocytosis, resistance to desiccation |
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Bacterial cell inclusions: what are they? |
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What is the function of granules within cells? 2 |
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storage of energy compounds and source of structural building blocks |
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What are carbon/energy storage compounds |
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glycogen, poly-beta-hydroxybutyric acid (PHB) "Dont worry" i have written |
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differentiated cells formed within the vegetative cell (sporangium) |
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What are highly resistant to heat, drying, radiation, acids, chemical disinfectants? |
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What are two examples of endospores? |
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Bacilllus (needs O2) and clostridium (anaerobic) |
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What can remain dormant for a long time? |
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