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1
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microorganisms use nutrients from their environmnt to produce macromolecules and chemicals required for (3)

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growth, survival and replication

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what is catabolism

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generation of ATP and reducing power (NADH) from nutrients. By- products catabolism may be used as precursors molecules for anabolism

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what is anabolism

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poduction of macromolecules from building block and energy (ATP). Reducing power is provided by NADH

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3 products from catabolism where 2 can be used by anabolism

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  1. lost heat
    * can be used by anabolism:
  2. useful forms of energy
  3. the many building blocks for biosynthesis
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5
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7 essentials nutrients and their % for all microorganisms

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C 50%
O 17%
N 13%
H 8,2%
P 2,5%
S 1,8%
Se less than 0,01%
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5 essential cations and anions for most microorganism

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Na
Cl
Mg
K
Ca
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what are the macromolecular composition of a cell + their % of dry weight (6)

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  1. protein, 55%
  2. lipid, 9,1%
  3. polysaccharide, 5,0% (in peptidoglycan)
  4. lipopolysaccharide, 3,4% (on the surface of Gram-negative bacteria)
  5. DNA, 3,1%
  6. RNA, (20,5%)
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difference between a defined and a complex culture medium

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in defined, we exactly know the components and the quantity of each nutrients
in complex, we know approximatively, but not exactly sure of every quantity

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why leuconostoc mesenteroides is a fastidious organism

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because it has vey specific nutrient demands because they have a lot of things they can’t make by themeselves

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what is activation energy

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energy needed to put all molecules in a reactive state

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what is a catalyst

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substance that lowers the activation energy, it does not affect the free energy, affects the rate

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redox couples always written so that ______ form on the left, _______ form on the right

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oxidized

reduced

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the chemical reaction of the couple reaction releases energy but the how much energy that is released depends on what

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the difference in reduction potential between the donor and the acceptor (the bigger is the difference, the bigger the enrgy released will be)

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complete name of NAD

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nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide

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15
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5 energy-rich compund

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ATP (adenosine triphosphate)
Aceytl CoA
glucose 6-phosphate
phosphoenolpyruvate
acetyl phosphate
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what are the three basic catabolic pathways that are required in most organisms to produce all of the precursors (carbon compounds and energy) needed for anabolism

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  1. glycolytic pathway (glycolysis, Embden-Meyerhof pathway)
  2. pentose phosphate pathway (hexose monophosphate pathway)
  3. tricarboxylic acid pathway (TCA, citric acid circle, Krebs cycle)
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17
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2 possibilities for ATP synthesis

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  1. fermentation: organic compunds are electron acceptor and electron donors. ATP is produced by substrate-level phosphorylation
  2. respiration: organic compunds are oxidized to CO2 with O2 (or substitue) as the electron acceptor. most of the ATP is produced by oxydative phosphorylation.
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3 stages of glycolysis

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  1. use energy (ATP) to create high energy molecules
  2. take advatange of the high energy molecules to create ATP
    * * net yield of 2 ATP , 2 NADH + H+ and 2 pyruvates
  3. fermentation: regeneration of NAD+ by creating waste product such as ethanol and lactate
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2 ways that we can use GTP in the citric acid cycle

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  1. can be used to phosphorylate ADP to create ATP

2. can be used for anabolic reactions

20
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2 functions of TCA cycle

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it has both energetic and biosynthetic functions (oxaloacetate must be regenerated (anapleurotic pathway), otherwise the TCA cycle will stop

21
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the net effect of TCA cycle is the complete oxidation of the acetyl group of the acetyl-coA and the production of (4)

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2 CO2
1 GTP (ATP)
3 NADH
1 FADH2

22
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difference between aerobic and anaerobic respiration

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aerobic: O2 is the final electron acceptor
anaerobic: other compunds act as terminal electrons acceptor, under anoxic conditions

23
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name of the process that uses the energy produced by respiration to synthesize ATP

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oxidative phosphorylation

24
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what is a respiratory chain

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series of hydrogen and electron carriers that can undergo oxidation-reduction

25
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composition of complex 1

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NADH dehydrogenase, FMN (hydrogen carrier), Fe-S center (electron carrier)

26
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what is Q

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quinone, hydrogen carrier

27
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what is complex 2

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succinate dehydrogenase, FAD (hydrogen carrier)

28
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what is complex 3

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cytochrome bc1, Fe-S (electron carrier)

29
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what is cytochrome c

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electron carrier

30
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what is complex 4

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electron carrier, terminal oxidase

31
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in eukaryotes, where are the electron transport chain and the TCA enzymes

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transport chain: in the mitochondria

TCA enzymes: inside the mitochondria

32
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the proton motive force is used to drive other energy requiring reactions (3)

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  1. flagellum rotation (in bacteria)
  2. transport accross the membrane
  3. synthesized of ATP
33
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how many protons are necessary to phosphorylate ADP to ATP

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3-4

34
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what are the physical and the chemical components of the proton motive force (pmf)

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physical: membrane potential (mV)
chemical: transmembrane pH gradient

35
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why some bacteria (even if they don’t do oxidative phosphorylation) still have ATPase

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because ATPase are reversible so they can used it to generate a proton motive force

36
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net yield of energy in the glycolysis

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8 ATP

  • substrate-level phosphorylation: 2 ATP
  • oxidative phosphorylation: (2NADH= 6 ATP)
37
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net yield of energy in the citric acid cycle

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15 ATP x 2 = 30 ATP

  • substrale-level phosphorylation = 1 GTP (ATP)
  • oxidative phosphorylation (4 NADH = 12 ATP + 1 FADH2 = 2 ATP donc 14 ATP)
38
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total of net yield of energy

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38 ATP

39
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what happens to the succinate if there is no terminal electron acceptor

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the succinate can’t be oxidize by the succinate dehydrogenase in the respiratory chain

40
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net yield of ATP in fermentation

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2 ATP

41
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in the absence of oxygen, how the grow of the yeast is affected

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the yeast population grows very slowly because fermentation yields only a fraction of ATP produced by respiration

42
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example of fermentation

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in yeast, production of ethanol and CO2 is inversely proportional to the concentration of oxygen

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