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Foundations of Microbiology Flashcards

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Study of microorganisms

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Microbiology

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True or False: Micro means small; Biology means life

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True

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About microbial diversity and evolution of microbial cells

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Microbiology

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Single-celled microscopic organisms

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Microorganisms

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They are ubiquitous and can live in extreme environments

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Microorganisms

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What is the system of naming in scientific nomenclature?

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Linnaeus System

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Discovered by Theodor Escherich

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Escherichia coli, or E. coli

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The first cell

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LUCA

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What does LUCA mean?

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Last Universal Common Ancestor

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They originated from LUCA and are the three domains of life

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Bacteria, Archaea, and Eukarya

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It is prokaryotic, has peptidoglycan and can be Gram+/-

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Bacteria

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It is prokaryotic, has cell wall but no PDG, and are extremophiles

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Archaea

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Eukaryotic with cell wall. Examples of this are: algae, fungi, protozoans, animals and plants

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Eukarya

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Prokaryotic or Eukaryotic: Algae

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Eukaryotic

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Prokaryotic or Eukaryotic: Fungi

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Eukaryotic

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Prokaryotic or Eukaryotic: Bacteria

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Prokaryotic

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Prokaryotic or Eukaryotic: Archaea

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Prokaryotic

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Prokaryotic or Eukaryotic: Protozoa

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Eukaryotic

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Prokaryotic or Eukaryotic: Relatively simple, small cell ranging from 1-2um

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Prokaryotic

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Prokaryotic or Eukaryotic: Possess rigid cell wall

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Prokaryotic

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Prokaryotic or Eukaryotic: Organelles are not membrane bound

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Prokaryotic

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Prokaryotic or Eukaryotic: Genetic material is not enclosed in a nuclear membrane

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Prokaryotic

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Prokaryotic or Eukaryotic: Genetic material is not enclosed in a nuclear membrane

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Prokaryotic

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Prokaryotic or Eukaryotic: Complex large cells, ranging form 10-100um

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Eukaryotic

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Prokaryotic or Eukaryotic: No rigid cell wall in vertebrates but in plants, cell wall is present

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Eukaryotic

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Prokaryotic or Eukaryotic: Membrane bound organelles

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Eukaryotic

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Prokaryotic or Eukaryotic: Genetic material is enclosed in a well defined nuclear membrane

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Eukaryotic

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Prokaryotic or Eukaryotic: Many chromosomes, formed linear, open ended double helical molecule of DNA

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Eukaryotic

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Takes up the nutrients from the environment and transforms them.

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Compartmentalization and metabolism

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Chemicals from the environment are turned into new cells from preexisting cells

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Contain genes and evolve to display new biological properties

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Some cells are capable of self-repulsion

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Some cells can form new cell structures such as a spore, usually as part of cellular life cycle

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Differentiation

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Many cells communicate or interact by means of chemicals released or taken up

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Communication

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unicellular, microscopic, prokaryotic, reproduce by binary fission

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unicellular, microscopic, prokaryotic, extremophiles, different to bacteria

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typically submicroscopic, acellular infectious particles containing either DNA or RNA as a genome that can only replicate inside a living host cell

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typically unicellular, microscopic, eukaryotic; reproduce asexually by budding

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Yeasts; Fungi

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typically filamentous, eukaryotic, asexual reproduction, spores

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Molds; Fungi

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typically unicellular, microscopic, eukaryotic, lack a cell wall

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eukaryotic microorganism that carry out photosynthesis

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Basic group of microorganism

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Bacteria, Archaea, Virus, Fungi, Protozoa, Algae

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He published Micrographia in 1664, which contains first microscopic observation of a fungi

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Robert Hooke

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In 1684, he constructed his own microscope influenced by Hooke and the first to examine microbial content “wee animalcules”

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Antoni Van Leeuwenhoek

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1876, discovered endospores, founder of the field ‘bacteriology’. Use of cotton for closing flasks and tubes to prevent contamination in media

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Ferdinand Cohn

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Vaccination of smallpox

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Edward Jenner

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Mechanism of fermentation, disproved the spontaneous generation, “sterilization process”, rabies and other vaccines, principles of immunization

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Louis Pasteur

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Methods of preventing infections during surgeries

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Joseph Lister

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Koch’s postulates, pure culture microbiology, discovery of agents of tuberculosis and cholera

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Robert Koch

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Chemolithotrophy and chemoautotrophy, nitrogen fixation, sulfur bacteria

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Sergei Winogradsky

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Enrichment culture technique, discovery of many metabollic groups of bacteria, concept of a virus

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Martinus Beijerinck

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