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Bacteria consist ____ to break down organic compounds and the reactions they use to synthesize new bacterial parts from the resulting carbon skeleton.

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Biochemistry

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What is created during metabolic breakdown?

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Energy

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In bacteriametabolism can be regulated by either…

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  • by regulating the production of an enzyme itself.
  • by regulating the activity of enzymes.
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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

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D

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It determines the genus of bacteria

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Biochemistry

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What is/are the common products of bacterial metabolism?

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  • alcohol and acid
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T or F
Bacteria only used glucose as energy.

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True

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What is the product of glycolis

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pyruvic acid

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Bacteria use biochemical pathways to catabolize carbohydrates and produce energy by two mechanisms what are they?
A. Fermentation
B. Oxidation
C. Respiration
D. Saponification

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A and B

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Fermentation is an anaerobic process of metabolism carried out by.

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both obligate and facultative anaerobes

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T or F
Fermentation is less efficient in respiration compared to energy generation.

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False- it is less efficient in energy generation

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Two important diagnostic tests in the identification of Enterobacteriaceae.

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Voges-Proskauer (VP)
Methyl red tests

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An efficient energy generating process in which molecular oxygen is the final electron acceptor.

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Respiration(oxidation)

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What is the starting carbohydrate for bacterial fermentation/oxidation?

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Glucose

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T or F
When bacteria use other sugars as a carbon source, they first convert the sugar to glucose.

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True

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What are the 3 major biochemical pathways bacteria used to break down glucose to pyruvic acid?

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(EMP)- Embden-Meyerhof-Parnas Glycolytic pathway
(PPP)- Pentose Phosphate Pathway
(EDP)- Enter-Duodoroff pathway

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What is the major end product of alcohol fermentation?

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Ethanol

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This is the pathway used by yeasts when they ferment glucose to produce ethanol

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Alcoholic fermentation

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The end product of Homolactic fermentation is exclusively

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Lactic acid

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T or F
Staphylococcus genus and clostridium genus undergo Homolactic fermentation .

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False - it is Streptococcus and Lactobacillus

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What are the products of Heterolactic fermentation.

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(CAFAL)
- CO2
- Alcohol
- Formic acid
- Acetic acid
- Lactic acid

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What is the major product of Propionic acid fermentation?

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Propionic acid bitch!!!!

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What species of bacteria undergo propionic acid fermentation?

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Propionibacterium acnes

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What genera of bacteria used the mixed acid fermentation?

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S- Shigella
E- Eschericia
S- Salmonella
E- Enterobacteriaceae

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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
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What genera undero butanediol fermentation?
K- Klebsiella E- Enterobacter S- Serratia E- Enterobacteriaceae
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End product of Butanediol fermentation?
Acetoin (acetyl methyl carbinol) 2,3-butanediol
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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
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Type of fermentation that certain obligates anaerobes produce butyric acid as their primary end product.
Butyric acid fermentation
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What obligate anaerobes bacteria undergo butyric acid fermentation?
(EuFuC) Eubacterium Fusobacterium Clostridium
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Most important pathway for complete oxidation under aerobic conditions.
Kreb cycle/ tricarboxylic acid cycle
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What is the starter compound in kreb cycle?
Pyruvate
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Product of kreb cycle
Hydrogen and carbon
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This cyl3e results in the production of acid and the evolution of CO2.
Kreb cycle
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Correct Pathway of energy production?
Glycolysis-kreb cycle- Electron transport chain- oxidative phosphorylation
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This fermentation is not performed by all bacteria except Enterobacteria
Lactose fermentation
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What are the 2 steps in lactose fermentation?
- first, transportation of lactose across the cell wall of bacteria by the enzyme (ɓ-galactose permease) - occurs inside the cell that require the enzyme (ɓ-galactosidase) to break the galactoside bond, releasing glucose which can be fermented
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2 enzymes involved in lactose fermentation
ɓ-galactoside permease ɓ-galactosidase
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Who discovered the DNA?
Frederick Miescher
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Who discovered the helix structure of DNA?
Rosalind Franklin
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It amplifies the DNA sequences and detects a very small number of bacteria present in a specimen.
PCR (polymerase chain reaction)
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It is the genetic potential of the DNA of an organisms.
Genotype
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T or F Some genes are expressed only in certain conditions.
True
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T or F DNA- messenger RNA- Protein
True
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The duplication of chromosomal DNA for insertion into a daughter cell.
Replication
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It is the syhthesis of ssRNA by the enzyme RNA polymerase.
Transcription
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The actual synthesis of a specific protein from the mRNA code.
Translation
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A group of 3 nucleotide.
Codon
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In translation, ribosomes containing rRNA sequentially add ____ to the growing polypeptide chain.
Nucleotides
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The amino acids are brought to the ribosome via
transfer RNA /tRNA
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Other terms of bacterial chromosome .
Genome
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Bacterial chromosome contains ___. A. Single, close circular piece of ssDNA B. Single, close circular piece of dsDNA C. Single, complex piece of dsDNA D.single, complex piece of ssDNA
B
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Many bacteria contain extra info on small circular pieces of extrachromosomal dsDNA called
Plasmid
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T or F Plasmids are essential for bacterial growth.
False
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Genes that code for antibiotics located in...
Plasmid
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The no. of plasmid in bacteria range from ____.
1 to 100
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Where is the location of plasmid?
Cytoplasm
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Which is/are true about plasmid? A. It is self-reflecting B. Similar to chromosomal DNA C. can be passed nonsexually (conjugation) D. They are extra chromosome
All answers are correct
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T or F Certain pieces of DNA are mobile.
True
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It is the ability of the DNA to jump from one place in chromosome to another places.
Jumping genes
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The simplest mobile piece of DNA
Insertion sequence (IS) element
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T or F IS element code for multiple genes.
False- only one gene
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What is the purpose of IS element?
Disrupt and inactivates the gene
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Mobile elelents that contain additional genes.
Transposons
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Carries antibiotic-resistance genes and is found in the plasmidnof bacteria.
Transposons
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Changes in DNA sequence.
Muration
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Type of mutation that doesn't change the protein
Silent mutation
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A mutation that results achange in one nucleotide base.
Point mutation
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What factors increases the mutation rate of bacteria?
Exposure to certain chemical and physical agents
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A method by which genes transferred between homologous region on two DNA molecules.
Genetic recombination
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This method provides to obtain new combinations of biochemical pathways and copy with changes in their environment.
Genetic recombination
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Mechanism of Gene transfer.
Transformation Transduction Conjugation
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Uptake and incorporation of naked DNA.
Transformation
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Cell that can take up naked DNA are referred as ___.
Competent
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Example of natural competent bacteria.
Streptococcus pneumoniae Neisseria gonorrhoeae Haemophilus influenzae
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Synthetic competent bacteria.
E. coli
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The transfer of bacterial genes by bacteriophage.
Transduction
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T or F The bacteriophage takes the lytic pathway during transduction.
True
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The phage DNA instead becomes incorporated into bacterial genome, where it is replicated along with the bacterial chromosomal DNA. This state is called? and the phage is called?
Lysogeny Phage (Temperate)
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Transfer of genetic material from donor bacterial strain to recipient stain.
Conjugation
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T or F Donor strain is (F+) while the recipient is (F-)
True
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A hollow surface appendage produced by the donor (F+). Which binds to recipient (F-) cell. To make the two cells in close contact.
Sex pilus
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Both plasmid and chromosomal genes can be transferred by this method.
Conjugation
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When the F factor is integrated into the bacterial chromosome rather than plasmid, there is a higher frequency of transfer of adjacent chromosomal genes called...
High-frequency (Hfr) strains
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They are produced to cut incoming, foreign DNA, at specific sequences.
Restriction enzymes
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T or F The first 2 letters in the restriction endonuclease name indicate the bacterial source of the enzyme
True
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E. coli=EcoRI H. influenzae=
HinIII
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Which statement is/are true about restriction enzymes? A. In biotechnology, its purpose is to serve as insertion of new genes B. In clinical microbiology, the enzyme was used to determine whether the strain of bacteria have identical restriction sites in their genomic DNA. C. BOTH D. NONE
C

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