Microbiology - Midterm exam review (cell structures, bonding, metabolism, growth, genetics)

SC 165/166 Microbiology

Midterm vocabulary review: Ch 1-9
Microbial cell structures, Bonding,
Metabolism, Growth, and Genetics

, Chapter 1: Humans and the Microbial World
• Theory of Spontaneous • infectious agents
Generation • microbe versus
• Cell Theory microorganism
• bacilli, cocci, spirilla • nucleoid region versus
• binary fission nucleus
• Binomial nomenclature
• obligate parasite
• capsule
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• pathogen
cytoplasm
• decomposer • peptidoglycan (gram +
• endospore versus gram -)
• Extremophile • photosynthetic
• flagella • Prokaryote versus
• host Eukaryote