Biochemistry, Metabolism ,and Genetics Flashcards
Bacteria consist ____ to break down organic compounds and the reactions they use to synthesize new bacterial parts from the resulting carbon skeleton.
Biochemistry
What is created during metabolic breakdown?
Energy
In bacteriametabolism can be regulated by either…
- by regulating the production of an enzyme itself.
- by regulating the activity of enzymes.
Which statement is/are true about diagnostic scheme analysis in unknownbacteria?
A. Utilization of various substrates as carbon source
B. Production of specific end products from various substrates
C. Production of an acid or alakaline pH in the test medium
D. All of the above
D
It determines the genus of bacteria
Biochemistry
What is/are the common products of bacterial metabolism?
- alcohol and acid
T or F
Bacteria only used glucose as energy.
True
What is the product of glycolis
pyruvic acid
Bacteria use biochemical pathways to catabolize carbohydrates and produce energy by two mechanisms what are they?
A. Fermentation
B. Oxidation
C. Respiration
D. Saponification
A and B
Fermentation is an anaerobic process of metabolism carried out by.
both obligate and facultative anaerobes
T or F
Fermentation is less efficient in respiration compared to energy generation.
False- it is less efficient in energy generation
Two important diagnostic tests in the identification of Enterobacteriaceae.
Voges-Proskauer (VP)
Methyl red tests
An efficient energy generating process in which molecular oxygen is the final electron acceptor.
Respiration(oxidation)
What is the starting carbohydrate for bacterial fermentation/oxidation?
Glucose
T or F
When bacteria use other sugars as a carbon source, they first convert the sugar to glucose.
True
What are the 3 major biochemical pathways bacteria used to break down glucose to pyruvic acid?
(EMP)- Embden-Meyerhof-Parnas Glycolytic pathway
(PPP)- Pentose Phosphate Pathway
(EDP)- Enter-Duodoroff pathway
What is the major end product of alcohol fermentation?
Ethanol
This is the pathway used by yeasts when they ferment glucose to produce ethanol
Alcoholic fermentation
The end product of Homolactic fermentation is exclusively
Lactic acid
T or F
Staphylococcus genus and clostridium genus undergo Homolactic fermentation .
False - it is Streptococcus and Lactobacillus
What are the products of Heterolactic fermentation.
(CAFAL)
- CO2
- Alcohol
- Formic acid
- Acetic acid
- Lactic acid
What is the major product of Propionic acid fermentation?
Propionic acid bitch!!!!
What species of bacteria undergo propionic acid fermentation?
Propionibacterium acnes
What genera of bacteria used the mixed acid fermentation?
S- Shigella
E- Eschericia
S- Salmonella
E- Enterobacteriaceae
What are the end products of mixed acid fermentation?
A. Lactic acid
B. Acetic acid
C. Succinic acid
D. Formic acid
All of the above
What genera undero butanediol fermentation?
K- Klebsiella
E- Enterobacter
S- Serratia
E- Enterobacteriaceae
End product of Butanediol fermentation?
Acetoin (acetyl methyl carbinol)
2,3-butanediol
T or F
(Butanediol fermentation)
The organisms that have a positive VP reaction usually have negative reactions to methyl red test and vice versa
True
Type of fermentation that certain obligates anaerobes produce butyric acid as their primary end product.
Butyric acid fermentation
What obligate anaerobes bacteria undergo butyric acid fermentation?
(EuFuC)
Eubacterium
Fusobacterium
Clostridium
Most important pathway for complete oxidation under aerobic conditions.
Kreb cycle/ tricarboxylic acid cycle
What is the starter compound in kreb cycle?
Pyruvate
Product of kreb cycle
Hydrogen and carbon
This cyl3e results in the production of acid and the evolution of CO2.
Kreb cycle
Correct Pathway of energy production?
Glycolysis-kreb cycle- Electron transport chain- oxidative phosphorylation