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Chapter 12: The Eukaryotes (Fungi, Algae, Protozoa, and Helminths)

 Compare and contrast fungi, algae, protozoa, and helminths
to bacteria (select features). And, describe the fungal
disease and characteristics of some pathogenic fungi * good
essay

Fungi:

aerobic or factitive anaerobic

chemoheterotrophs

eukaryotic

sterols present

no peptidoglycan

sexual and asexual reproductive spores

Bacteria:

Prokaryotic

Sterols absent (except in mycoplasma)

Peptidoglycan cell walls

Endospores (not for reproduction); some asexual reproductive spores

Heterotrophic and autotrophic

Facultatively anaerobic, anaerobic

Sterols absent (except in mycoplasma)

 List and describe the medically important protozoa and
roles of algae in nature ** good essay

Apicomplexa
- Nonmotile
- Obligate intracellular parasites
- Complex life cycles
- Toxoplasma gondii: transmitted by cats; causes fetal infections


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- Cryptosporidium - transmitted via feces; causes waterborne illness
Plasmodium: causes malaria
- Sexually reproduces in the Anopheles mosquito
- A mosquito injects a sporozoite into its bite, and the sporozoite
undergoes
- schizogony in the liver; merozoites are produced
- Merozoites infect red blood cells, forming a ring stage inside the cell
- Red blood cells rupture, and merozoites infect new red blood cells
Ciliates
-Move by cilia arranged in precise rows
- Balantidium coli is the only human parasite; causes dysentery
Algae in nature:
- Fix CO2 into organic molecules
- Produce 80% of earth's O2
- Algal blooms are increases in planktonic algae that can result in toxin
release or die and consume oxygen
- Oil production
- Symbionts of animals
Chapter 13: Viruses, Viroids, and Prions

Essays from this chapter will include:

 Differentiate and describe the biosynthesis of DNA and RNA viruses
(provide and example virus for each). In your discussion, describe
the viral multiplication process from entry to exit into a host cell.
 Describe the process of viral multiplication
o Lytic cycle of T-even phages
o Lysogenic cycle of bacteriophage lambda

Viral multiplication

 For a virus to multiply
o It must invade a host cell
o It must take over the host’s metabolic machinery
 One step growth curve
o Very strong peak, biosynthesis + maturation -> acute infection
o Most infected cells die once there is a spike in number of viral
particles
o If cell/host dies virus cannot multiply
 Very quick viral multiplication once invaded host cell
 Injects DNA/RNA takes over cell


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