Mibo stuvia Study guides, Class notes & Summaries

energy - Answer all living things need ______ to move and grow chemical reactions (catabolic and anabolic) - Answer Energy comes from: Catabolism - Answer breakdown of complex molecules into smaller ones Anabolism - Answer reactions that build cells Coupling - Answer Catabolic and anabolic reactions can be done together/at the same time in order to use the energy released from catabolism to perform anabolism the microbial buffet - Answer catabolism is nicknamed: polysaccharides...

Genome - Answer all the genetic material the organism contains Vertical transmission - Answer -from parent to offspring -same species (binary fission) Horizontal transmission - Answer -transfer of small pieces of DNA from one cell to another -different or same species 1) transformation 2) conjugation 3) transduction Transformation - Answer The process of importing free DNA into bacterial cells, cells need to be competent to do this (dead bacteria to live) Dr. Griffith - Answe...

Dmitri Ivanovsky - Answer -studied Tobacco Mosaic Disease to find a bacterial cause for it -saw that bacterial agent was not removed by bacterial filters -mottling of leaves, stunted leaves, wrinkles Beijerinck - Answer -studied Tobacco Mosaic Disease and also saw that the agent was not removed by bacterial filters -coined the term "virus" for something so small that it must pass through the filters Loeffler & Frosch - Answer -former Koch students -studied infectious Foot & Mouth Dis...

pseudopeptidoglycan - Answer component of archaea cell walls that is similar to peptidoglycan in structure/function but contains different sugars not susceptible to cell wall antibiotics N-acetylosaminuronic acid - Answer component of pseudopeptidoglycan found in cell walls of some types of Archae histone - Answer protein molecule around which DNA is tightly coiled in chromatin choanocyte - Answer Collar cells that line the body cavity and have flagella that circulate water and di...

Central Dogma - Answer DNA --> mRNA ---> Proteins DNA ---> DNA = Replication DNA ---> mRNA = Transcription mRNA ---> Proteins = Translation Base + Sugar = ? - Answer Nucleoside Base + Sugar + Phosphate = ? - Answer Nucleotide Bases - Answer Adenine, guanine, cytosine, uracil (RNA specific), thymine (DNA specific) Sugars - Answer ribose (RNA), deoxyribose (DNA) Differences between DNA and RNA - Answer The DNA and RNA have 3 bases in common, A, G, and C. RNA...

genus/species - Answer -Escherichia/Escherichia Coli -genus + epithet = species dutch merchant that used microscope to observe microbes, called them "animalcules" - Answer Antoine Van Leeuwenhoek periplasmic space - Answer space between inner and outer cellular membrane analysis of this allows all life to be organized into 3 domains - Answer 16S RNA as wavelength increases, resolving power - Answer decreases staining technique for TB - Answer acid-fast resolution - Answer m...