Functional Anatomy of Prokaryotic and Eukaryotic Cells Flashcards
What are some common features of Prokaryotic and Eukaryotic Cells?
- Both have DNA and Chromosomes
- Both have cell membrane
- Both have cytosol and ribosomes
What are some characteristics which differentiate Prokaryotic and Eukaryotic cells?
- Types of Ribosomes
- Prokaryotic 70S ribosomes
- Eukaryotic 80S ribosomes
2. Nucleus
- Pro- nucleoid
- Euk- nucleus
3. Membrane Bound Organelles
- Only Euks. have them
4. Size - Pros. are smaller 0.2-2 micrometers
5. Cell wall
- Not all Euk. have them
6. Chromosomes
- Pros. large circular loop of DNA
- Euks. Linear chromosomes
Describe the chromosomes of Prokaryotes.
One circular chromosome, not membrane bound
Does the DNA of Prokaryotes contain histones?
No
Do prokaryotes contain membrane bound organelles?
No
Peptidoglycan cell walls
are found in both gram positive and negative bacteria
Prokaryotes reproduce by
Binary Fission
How does binary fission happen?
- The cell grows larger
- The cell copies its DNA
- The cell divides
What are histones?
proteins that DNA are wrapped around
monomorphic
one uniform shape
Pleomorphic
not all the same shape
Describe the size and shape of bacilli
- Rod shaped
- 2-8 micrometers long
- 0.2-1.0 micrometers wide
- singular: bacillus
Describe the size and shape of cocci
- 1-2 micrometers diameter
- Spherical
- singular: coccus
what is the average size of prokaryotes?
0.2-1.0 micrometers x 2-8 micrometers
What are the 3 basic shapes of bacteria?
- Bacillus (bacilli)
- Coccus (cocci)
- Spirals (Vibrio, spirillum, spirochete)
what are the types of spiral bacteria?
- Vibrio
- Spirillum
- Spirochete
most bacteria are _________ in apperance but some are _____________.
- monomorphic
- pleomorphic
Vibrio
spirillum
spirochete
What is an example of a Virbrio bacterium?
- Vibrio cholerae
- Causes severe watery diarreha
- A victim can lose up to 5 liters of fluid a day
what is another shape of bacteria?
- Coccobacillus
- shapped like a cocci and bacilli
what cellular arrangement is this?
- diplococci
- two cocci attached to eachother
what cellular arrangement is this?
- streptococci
- cocci in a chain formation
what cellular arrangement is this?
- Tetrad
- devide once in a perpendicular
What cellular arrangement is this?
- Sarcinae
- tetrad stacked
what cellular arrangement is this?
- Staphylococci
- clustered togther
what cellular arrangement is this?
- single bacillus
what cellular arrangement is this?
- diplobacilli
- two bacilli attached togther
what cellular arrangement is this?
- streptobacilli
- bacilli in a chain-like formation
what cellular arrangement is this?
- coccobacilli
- has characteristics of bacillus coccus bacteria
What type of bacteria are an example of pleomorphic?
- Corynebacteria; a dangerous bacteria
Cell arrangement
how the cells exist togther
Why is understanding cellular arrangement important?
Arragement can provide clues to what organism is causing a disease.
Known as a sugar coating, its made of sugar and protein, it forms a capsule around bacteria.
- Glycocalyx
Flagella
- long appendiages responsible for cell motility
- anchored to the cell wall and membrane
- number and placement determines if atrichous, monotrichous, lophotrichous, amphitrichous, peritrichous.
Axial filaments
- The central filament of a flagellum or cilium. Also called axoneme .
- Endoflagella- flagella inside the bacteria
- Found in spirochetes
- Anchored at one end of the cell
- Rotation causes cell to move
In what order should these go?
- Membrane
- Capsule
- Cell wall
- Capsule
- Cell wall
- Membrane
Fimbria (fimbriae)
- A fimbria (plural fimbriae) is a Latin word that literally means “fringe.”
- an appendage composed of curlin proteins that can be found on many Gram-negative and some Gram-positive bacteria that is thinner and shorter than a flagellum.
- Fimbriae are used by bacteria to adhere to one another and to adhere to animal cells and some inanimate objects.
Pilus (pili)
- A pilus (Latin for ‘hair’; plural : pili) is a hairlike appendage found on the surface of many bacteria. The terms pilus and fimbria (Latin for ‘fringe’; plural: fimbriae) can be used interchangeably, although some researchers reserve the term pilus for the appendage required for bacterial conjugation (sex).
- used to transfer DNA from one bacteria to another.
A. Chromosome (nucleoid)
B. Pilus
C. Ribosomes
D. Inclusion
E. Flagellum
F. Plasmid
G. Cytoplasm
H. Plasma membrane
I. Cell wall
J. Capsule or slime layer
Biofilm
- layer or a congragation of pathogens (bacteria)
- Can be found on implants or in foley catheters
Why are bacterial glycocalicies biologically important?
- Capsules can be considered a virulence factor
- Allows bacteria to scoot away from phagocytes
- Allows cells to attach to eachother and create biofilms.
Virulence factor
characteristics that cause bacteria to be harmful
Glycocalyx
- many bacteria secrete external surface layer composed of sticky polysaccharides, polypeptide, or both.
What are the 2 types of glycocaylices?
- Capsule: organized and firmly attached to cell wall.
- Slime Layer: unorganized and loosely attached.
Which bacteria is atrichous?
- A
- No flagella
What bacteria is monotrichous?
- B
- One flagellum
What bacteria is lophotrichous?
- D
- Many at one end
What bacteria is amphitrichous?
- C
- Flagella on both ends
which bacterium is peritrichous?
- E
- flagella all around
Flagella have a _______ and a ___________ in the membrane.
- motor
- drive shaft
what allows bacteria with flagella to move?
- rotation of the flagella
Why do the flagella of bacteria cause problems in humans?
- Because they trigger an immune response (H antigen)
- Flagella proteins are H-antigens -induce immune response.
- Escherichia coli O157:H7 Seventh position on flagella.
What is the flagella’s mechanism of rotation?
run and tumble