Chapter 1 - The Main Themes Of Microbiology Flashcards
What is the specialized area of biology that deals with organisms too small to be seen with the naked eye
Microbiology
Another word for microbes?
Microorganisms
How many groups of microorganisms are there?
5
What are the 5 Major group types of microorganisms?
Algae, bacteria, Protozoa, helminths, fungi
What are noncellular, parasitic, protein-coated
genetic elements that cause harm to host cells?
Viruses
What reproduces rapidly?
Microbes
Microbes are a large population that can be grown where?
Laboratory
An addition to microscopes, what must be analyzed through indirect methods?
Microbes
What branch of microbiology deals with microbes that cause diseases in humans and animals?
Medical Microbiology
Which branch monitors and controls the spread of diseases in communities?
Public Health Microbiology and Epidemiology
What branch deals with complex webs of protective substances and cells produced in response to infection?
Immunology
Immunologists assist with what?
Vaccinations, blood testing, and allergy
What do immunologist look for
in regards to Cancer and autoimmune diseases?
They look at how the immune system effect such diseases
What branch safeguards our foods and water?
Industrial Microbiology
Industrial Microbiology uses what kind of technology?
Biotechnology
Industrial microbiologists use microbes to create what?
Amino acids, beer, drugs, enzymes, and vitamins
What branch specializes in plant an animals?
Agricultural microbiology
Agricultural microbiologists research the relationship between ___ and ___?
Domesticated plants animals
Who study’s the effects of microbes on the Earth’s diverse habitats?
Environmental microbiologists
Aquatic, soil, and geomicrobiology, and astrobiology are specimens ___ studies?
Environmental microbiologists
What shaped the development of the earth’s habitats and the evolution of other life forms for billions of years?
Microbes
What arose 3.5 billion years ago?
Single -celled organisms
Who arose from the Last universal Common ancestor?
Bacteria,archaea and eukaryotes
Cells with a nucleus are classified as?
Eukaryotes
True nucleus is called?
Eukary
Pre nucleus is called?
Prokary
What does not have a nucleus and is considered a prokaryote?
Bacteria and archaea
Why are bacteria and archaea no longer classified as prokaryotes?
Genetically distant
Where are Bacteria found?
Deep in the earth’s crust, polar ice caps, oceans, inside the bodies of plants and animals
Bacteria are considered?
Ubiquitous- Found in abundance
What is the accumulation of changes that occur in organisms as they adapt to their environments?
Evolution
What are microbes deeply involved in?
Deeply involved in the flow of energy and food through the earth’s ecosystems