#1 cause of bacterial diarrhea Correct Answers campylobacter
3 Domains Correct Answers Eukarya, Archaea, Eubacteria
abiogenesis Correct Answers spontaneous generation - living
material comes from nonliving matter
acid fast Correct Answers holds fast to dye (AFB+)
acquired/adapted immunity Correct Answers specific, induced
immunity that recognizes conserved AND nonconserved regions
and produces memory
algae Correct Answers photosynthetic eukaryotes that live in
aqueous environments
angstrom Correct Answers 10^-10, Å
another name for axial filament Correct Answers
endoflagellum
another name for differential interference Correct Answers
Nomarski
Anthony van Leeuwenhoek Correct Answers discovered
animalcules and reported the discovery to the Royal Society of
London but failed to share his expertise in microscopy
,antigen Correct Answers any substance capable of inducing an
immune response
antigen receptors on B cells Correct Answers
immunoglobin/antibody
antigen receptors on T cells Correct Answers TCR
applied microbiology Correct Answers food, environmental,
industrial, pharmaceutical, recombinant DNA technology
Archaea Correct Answers prokaryotes living in extreme
environments
arthrobodies Correct Answers mosquitoes, fleas, and ticks
atrichous Correct Answers no flagellum
axial filament Correct Answers crude form of motility that
flexes back and forth like a slinky in the cell walls of spiroketes
bacillus Correct Answers rod
Bacillus examples Correct Answers anthracis, cereus
bacteria Correct Answers diverse prokaryotic cells, very few
human pathogens
bacterial arrangements Correct Answers diplo, strepto,
staphylo, tetrads, sarcinae
, bacterial DNA Correct Answers nucleoid region and plasmids
bacterial shapes Correct Answers coccus, bacillus, spirillum
vibrio, campylobacter, helicobacter pylori
bacterial size Correct Answers 0.2 - 2.0 micrometers in width,
0.5 - 20 micrometers in length
binding of the fimbriae Correct Answers very specific
capsule composition Correct Answers sugar and polypeptides
capsule functions Correct Answers prevents phagocytosis,
adherence and promotion of biofilm, protects from various
antimicrobials, initiates immune response by expressing
antigens, important virulence factors
CDs Correct Answers clusters of differentiation
cell containing a pilus Correct Answers male
cell envelope Correct Answers selectively permeable
phospholipid bilayer with embedded protein but no cholesterol
cell envelope functions Correct Answers osmotic barrier,
transport, ATP synthesis, nutrient catalysis and processing,
enzymatic biosynthesis and degradation, secretion
cell mediated immunity (CMI) Correct Answers T cells