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History, Organisms of Interest in Microbiology, Review of Eukaryotic Cell Structure
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Biology
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08/10/2011

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Who developed the first useful compound microscope?

 

 

 

Definition

Janssen

 

 

1590-1608

Term

Who applied the term "cell" to life's smallest units?

 

 

 

Definition

Robert Hooke

 

1665

Term

Who discovered "animalcules" using a simple microscope

(single lens)?

 

 

 

 

 

 

Definition

van Leeuwenhoek

 

 

1676

Term

Who reported seeing Protozoa and Bacteria?

 

 

Definition

van Leeuwenhoek

 

1674 and 1676

Term
Who used cowpox vaccination for smallpox?
Definition

Jenner

 

1798

Term
Who proposed the cell theory?
Definition

Schwann and Schleiden

 

1838-1839

Term
Who showed that childbed fever is transmitted by doctors and introduced use of antiseptics to prevent disease?
Definition

Semmelweis

 

1847-1850

Term

What years are revered to as the Golden Age of Microbiology?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Definition

1845-1910

 

because it became a science during this period

Term
Who studied the epidemiology of cholera in London?
Definition

Snow

1849

Term
Who showed that lactic acid fermentation is due to microbes?
Definition

Pasteur

 

1857

Term
Who is the father of modern pathology? What is his slogan?
Definition

Vrchow

 

all cells come from cells

Term
Who showed that micro-organisms do not arise via spontaneous generation?
Definition

Pasteur

 

1861

Term
How did Pasteur disprove the theory of spontaneous generation of microorganisms?
Definition

1. Beef broth in a long-necked flask

2. Heated neck of flask to form a S-shaped curve and boil broth

3. Microorganisms did not appear after several months

4. Some original vessels are on display at Pasteur Institute in Paris, France uncontaminated

Term
Who published work on antiseptic surgery?
Definition

Lister

 

1867

Term
Who discovered nucleic acids?
Definition

Miescher

 

1869

Term
Who demonstrated that anthrax is caused by Bacillus anthracis?
Definition

Robert Koch

 

1976-1877

Term
What happened of significance in 1881?
Definition

Koch (bacteria cultures from gelatin to agar gel) and

Pasteur(anthrax vaccine on agar gel)

 

They both were able to culture pure cultures.

Term
Mycobacterium tuberculosis
Definition
Koch discovers tubercle bacillus in 1882
Term
What contributions did Koch make to bacterial science?
Definition

Occurred in 1882

 

1. Koch's postulates first published

2. Autoclave developed

3. Gram stain developed

 

 

Term
Who discovered the rabies vaccine?
Definition

Pasteur

 

1885

Term
Who discovered the Petri Dish?
Definition

Richard Petri (an assistant to Koch), 1887

 

** the dish is incubated upside-down with the agar facing down

Term
What are Koch's Postulates?
Definition

1. Pathogen must be present in every case of the disease

2. Pathogen must be isolated and grown in pure culture

3. Hypothesized that the cultured pathogen should cause the disease when inoculated into a healthy, susceptible host

4. The same pathogen must be reisolated from the diseased experimental host

Term
Who recognized that Archaea as a distinct group?
Definition
Woese and Fox
Term
Koch's Postulates on the Molecular Form?
Definition

1. Virulence trait is associate more with a pathogenic strain and a nonpathogenic strain.

 

2. Inactivation of the gene or genes associated with the suspected virulence trait should substaintially decrease pathogenicity.

 

3. Replacement of an inactivated virulence factor gene with the normal wild-type gene should fully restore pathogenicity

 

4. The gene should be expressed during infection and disease process

5. Antibodies or immune system cells directed against the gene products should protect the host

Term
what are the relative sizes of worms, fungi& most protozoa, bacteria, and virus
Definition

worms:

fungi and most protozoa:

bacteria:

virus:

Term
Describe a Dimophic Fungus
Definition

grows as a yeast when infecting fand

other times as a mold form when in the environment

 

 

Term
What are the membrane enclosed organelles in eukaryotes?
Definition

1. Nucleus (separate transcription from translation)

2. Endoplasmic reticulum (smooth and rough)

3. Golgi (modifiew membrane and secreted proteins and serves to direct various proteins to their final destination

4. Peroxisomes (contains various oxidases & catalase) various transport and secretory vesicales & vacuoles

5. Most secretion involves vesicular transport and exocytosis

Term

Eukaryotic Cell Structure:

what are the function of the following

 

1. Vesticular Transport

2. Lysosomes

3. Cytoplasmic Matrix

4. Mitochondria

Definition

Vesticular Transport: endocytosis and phagocytosis

lysosomes: breakdown macromolecules

cyctoplasmic matrix: glycolysis and pentose phosphate pathway occurs

mitochondria: Krebs (TCA) cycle occurs in matrix, ETC and generation of ATP via oxidative phosphorylation using proteins embedded in linner mitochondrial membrane

Term
what is the Sverberg number for Eukaryotes?
Definition
80S
Term
What are the subunits of eukaryote cell structure?
Definition
40S and 60S
Term
what is contained in the the 40S subunit of the Eukaryote cell structure?
Definition
18S r RNA
Term
What two organisms lack cell walls?
Definition
Protozoa and animals cells
Term
what organisms do have cell walls?
Definition
Fungal, plant, and algal
Term
What is the cell wall made up of?
Definition
chitin which is a complex carbohydrate and often called cellulose (polymer of glucose)
Term
How are things transported are the wall of a eukaryote cell structure?
Definition
Term
What causes the undulating motion of the the flagell and cillia in a eukaryotic cell?
Definition
9x2 +2 microtubules and a cilliary ATPase named ciliary dynenin
Term
The location of the ribosome determines the destination of the protein.  where does the protein end up if results from free ribosomes?
Definition
Cytosol or nucleus
Term
where will a protein end up if generated from ribosomes that are membrand bound?
Definition

1. Inserted into the membrane (transmembrane)

2. lumen of the ER for packaging for :

 

secretion

enzyme

Term
[image]
Definition
Van Leeuwenhoek's Microscope
Term
[image]
Definition

Match the choices:

 

nonpathogenic amobeba, a protozoan

nonpathogenic ciliated protozoan

pathogenic flagellated protozoan

pathogenic intracellular protozoan

Term
[image]
Definition

why are the prokaryotes and eukaryotes stained differently:

 

staining works on gram + to be blue

gram - to be pink

Term
[image]
Definition
detected by blood collection or fecal specimens
Term
[image]
Definition

rabies virus is the bullet

bacteriophage is the dark blue

Term

How are large molecules transported across the plasma membrane?

What are the requirements?

Definition
[image]
Term

How are small molecules transported across the plasma membrane?

 

What does the picture look like?

Definition
[image]
Term
[image]
Definition

1. Nuclear Envelope

2. Perinucler spore

3. Nuclear pore

4. Lysome

5. Mitochondrion

6. Centriole

7. Secretory vesicle

8. Golgi apparatus

9. Transport vesicles

10. Rough ER

11. Smooth ER

12. Cell membrane

13. Cytoskeleton

14. Ribosomes

15. Cilia

16. Nucleolus

Term
what are the funtions of the membrane enclosed organelles of the eukaryotic cell?
Definition
1.Nucleus:separates transcription from translation 2. ER (smooth) detox and ER (rough) protein synthesis 3. Golgi: modifies membrane and secreted proteins and serves to direct proteins to final destination 4.  Peroxisomes: secretory vesicles and vacuoles: MOST SECRETION INVOLVES VESICLAR TRANSPORT AND EXOCYTOSIS5. 5. uptake of large molecules require vesicular transport endocytosis and phagocytosis6. glycocylsis and pentose phosphat occurs in cytoplasmic matrix
Term
Describe the difference in movement of prokaryotic and eukaryotic movement.
Definition
the flagella and cilia move in an undulating fashion due to sliding between microtubules within their interior and the energy is from ATP to power the dynein (motor protein)
Term
Name 3 characteristics of the eukaryotic cell structure.
Definition

Protozoal and animal cells lack cell walls

 

Fungal algal and plant cell have cell walls

 

fungal (chitin)

 

algae and plant (cellulose)

Term
What is a major difference between the peptidoglycan of gram negative and postive bacteria? Name a gram negative and gram positive bacteria.
Definition

Pentaglycine

 

gram negative: Escherichia coli

gram positive: staphylococcus aureus

Term
What is DAP? What is unique about it? What is its function?
Definition

DAP (diaminopimelic acid)

 

examples are L-lysine or diaminopimelic acid

 

Needed in 3rd position to form cross-linking with 4th postion D-alanine

Term
What is located in the 4th position of Bacterial Peptidoglycan?
Definition
D-alanine D-alanine dipeptide and is used for cross linking via a transpeptidation reaction and the 5th position D-alanine is released on cross-linking
Term
What is a significant difference in the Peptidoglycan of gram negative and positive?
Definition
Pentaglycine Interbridge in gram positive s. aureus is ADDITIONAL to crossbridge in gram negative
Term
Describe the cell structure of a gram negative bacteria.
Definition
[image]
Term

The discoveries of these scientist:

 

 

Janseen, Hooke, van Leeuwenhoek

 

 occurred in what time frame?

Definition
1590-1676
Term

The discoveries of these scientist:

 

Jenner, Schwann and Schleiden, Semmelweis

 

 

occurred in what time frame?

Definition
1800-1850
Term

The discoveries of these scientist:

 

Snow, Pasteur, Virchow (Nuemonic VSP)

 

 

 

occurred in what time frame?

Definition
1850-1860
Term

The discoveries of these scientist:

 

Lister, Miescher, Koch (MLK)

 

 

occurred in what time frame?

Definition
1870-1880
Term
Aerobic, Gram Positive Cocci, and Catalase Postive
Definition
Micrococcus and Staphylococcus
Term
Aerobic, Gram-positive cocci, catalase negative
Definition
enterococcus and Streptococcus
Term
Aerobic, Gram-Positive Rods
Definition
Corynebacterium, Nocardia, Mycobacterium, Bacillus, Listeria
Term
Aerobic, Gram-Positive Rods with mycolic acids in their cell walls
Definition
Corynebacterium, Nocardia, Mycobacterium
Term
Aerobic, gram-negative cocci, and coccobacilli
Definition
moraxella, neisseria
Term
Aerobic, Gram-Negative Rods
Definition
Enterobacteriaceae (Citrobacter, Enterobacter, Escherichia, Klebsiella, Proteus, Salmonella, Serratia, Shigella, Yersinia), Vibrio, Campylobacter, Helicobacter, Pseudomonas, Haemophilus, Pasteurella
Term
Anaerobic Gram-Positive Cocci
Definition
Peptostreptococcus
Term
anaerobic Gram-Positive rods
Definition
acinomyces, clostridium, Propionibacterium
Term
Anaerobic Gram-negative rods
Definition
Bacteroides, Fusobacterium, prevotella
Term
Indeterminate with regard to gram staining
Definition
Mycoplasma, Ureaplasma, borrelia, treponema, chlamydia, coxiella, reckettsia
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