Ch. 4 Flashcards
Type of cell with no nuclear membrane
Procaryotic
In a Procaryotic cell where is genetic material?
NOT enclosed within a membrane
Prokaryotic cells have no organelles. T or F?
True
Nucleus bound by a membrane. What cell type?
Eucaryotic
Eukaryotic cells contain no peptidoglycan. T or F?
True
Coccus shape
circle/sphere
Bacillus shape
rod
Prokaryotic cells divide by__________
binary fission (asexual)
_________ cells walls contain peptidoglycan.
Procaryotic
Spiral shape
spiral
Curved rods with more than 1 curve
Spirillum
Star or Square shaped bacteria?
Archeobacteria
External cell wall structure- Capsule. Made from?
Polysaccharide - Polypeptide
Capsule is
sticky gelatinious polymer
Capsule function?
- *Contributes to virulence.
- *Antiphagocytosis
- Source of food (can breakdown own capsule for food)
- colonization - attachments to teeth, GI tract, Resp. tract
- dehydration protection
Organ of locomotion?
Flagella (have if they live in water)
Flagella made from?
Flagellin - protein
Axial filaments are used by ____________.
Spirochoetes (bacteria)
Bundles of fibrils that arise at one end of the cell beneath outersheathf and spiral around the cell.
Allows cell to move in corkscrew motion
Axial filaments
3 bacterias that have axial filaments.
- Treponema pallidum (syphilis)
- Borelia bergidorferi (lyme disease)
- Leptospira interogans (kidney infection)
Hair-like structure
Fimbriae
Fimbriae and Pili found in Gram ______ bacteria?
negative
Structure used for attachment - adherence.
Fimbriae
Structure used for transfer of DNA. Has tube like structures to transfer.
Pili
Causative agent of gonorrhea. Has fimbriae.
Neisseria gonorrhea
Bacteria that look like curved rods
vibrios (vibrio)
vibriocholera
Most powerful diarrhea
Helicobacteria pylori is an example of which type of spiral bacteria?
Spirillum
Causative agent of Anthrax
Bacillus anthracis