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Introduction to Microbiology and Nature of the Microbial World Flashcards

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The study of living organisms of microscopic size?

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Microbiology

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The term microbe was first used but now is commonly replaced by microoorganisms.

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Sedillot - 1878

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They suggested that disease was caused by invisible living creatures?

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Lucretius and Girolamo Fracastoro

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He was the amateur microscopist and was the first person to observe microorganisms in 1673 using a simple microscope?

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Antony van Leeuwenhoek 1632-1723

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He constructed the first microscope?

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Antony van Leeuwenhoek 1632-1723

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  • Its a hypothetical process by which organisms develop from non-living matter
  • Explanation for the emergence of life from decaying matter
  • Used to explain the origin of life
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Spontaneous Generation Theory

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He thought that animal could originate from the soil.

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Aristotle (384-322 BC)

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He used MICE for the Spontaneous Generation Theory?

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Jean Baptiste van Helmont

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He published experiments purporting the spontaneous generation (abiogenesis) of microorganism in putrescible fluids.

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John Needham

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He claimed to have carried out experiments conclusively proving that microbial growth could occur without air contamination.

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Felix Pouchet

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Grandfather of Microbiology?

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Antony van Leeuwenhoek

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Coined the term - Animalcules - bacteria, yeast

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Antony van Leeuwenhoek

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He disapproved spontaneous generation using maggots, flies and a jar.

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Francesco Redi

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Father of Microbiology?

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Louis Pasteur (1822-1895)

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If cells arise from nonliving substances, they will appear in sterile broth.

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Louis Pasteur

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He developed sterilization techniques, developed methods and techniques for cultivation of microorganisms.

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Louis Pasteur

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Cholera investigation (skeptic of miasma theory)

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John Snow

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Germ theory of disease (maternity ward)

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Oliver Wendell Holmes

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19
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Discovery of endospores

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John Tyndall

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  • Medium to grow bacteria
  • Co-founder of modern Microbiology
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Robert Koch

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Father of Modern Antisepsis (sterile surgery, less cases of gangrene)

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Joseph Lister

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Dye called Protosil (Sulfanilamide)

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Gerhard Domagk

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23
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Staph colonies disappearing with mold?

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Alexander Fleming

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24
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First vaccine against smallpox?

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Edward Jenner

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Made experiments to disprove sppontaneous generation theory

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Lazaro Spallanzani

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Introduced the use of agar as a solidifying media.

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Fanny Hese

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27
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Developed modern concept of chemotherapy and chemotherapeutic agents.

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Paul Ehrlich

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Discovered phagocytosis

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Elie Metchnikoff

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Hans Christian Gram

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Introduced the differential staining bacteria - Gram staining.

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Discern the associative relationship of Clostridium sp. to gas gangrene

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William Henry Welch

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Utilized enrichment culture and first to recognize the first virus.

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Martinus Beijerinck

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32
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Independently discovered bacteriophage and viruses that attack or destroy bacteria.

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Frederick Twort

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Wrote the first known discussion of the phenomenon of contagious infection. On Contagion

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Girolamo Fracastoro

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34
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  • Showed that a disease affecting silkworms was caused by a fungus
  • First microorganism to be recognized as a contagious agent of animal disease
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Agostino Bassi de Lodi

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35
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  • Decided that doctors in Vienna hospitals were spreading childbed fever while delivering babies.
  • Forced doctors under his supervision to wash their hands before touching patients.
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Ignaz Semmelweiss

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36
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Pasteur demonstrated that _______, malignant edema and suppurative lesions were each associated with a specific bacterial infection.

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Fowl cholera

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37
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Causative organisms of TB and typhoid fever were recognized by?

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Robert Koch

38
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The organism should be regularly found in the lesions of the disease? Which postulate entails this?

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Robert Koch’s Postulate #1

39
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It should be possible to isolate the organism in pure culture from the lesions.

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R.K. Postulate #2

40
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Inoculation of the pure culture into suitable laboratory animals should reproduce the lesion of the disease.

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R.K. Postulate #3

41
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It should be possible to re-isolate the organism in pure culture from the lesions produced in the experimental animals.

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R.K. Postulate #4

42
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Specific antibodies to the organism should be demonstratable in the serum of patients suffering from the disease.

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R.K. Postulate #5

43
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He was the first to use hanging drop method by studying bacterial motility.

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Robert Koch

44
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Observed that a guinea pig already infected with the bacillus responded with an exaggerated response when injected with the tubercle bacillus or its protein. Its a hypersensitivity reaction.

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Koch’s phenomenon

45
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Described the leprosy bacillus

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Hensen

46
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Discovered the gonococcus in the pus discharge from urethra.

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Nesisser

47
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Observed the typhoid bacillus

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Eberth

48
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Described the staphylococci in abscess and suppurative lesions

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Alexander Ogston

49
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Observed and described the diphtheria bacillus

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Loeffler

50
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Observed the tetanus bacillus in soil

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Nicolaier

51
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Demonstrated the tetanus bacillus with round terminal spore

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Rosenbach

52
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Described the pneumococcus

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Fraenkel

53
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Described and isolated the meningococcus frpm the spinal fluid of a patient

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Weichselbaum

54
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Identified the causative agent of malta fever

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Bruce

55
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Discovered the syphilis

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Schaudin and Hoffman

56
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Whittaker’s System?

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  • Monera
  • Protista
  • Plantae
  • Fungi
  • Animalia
57
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Super kingdoms system3 Domains?

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  • Bacteria
  • Archaea
  • Eukarya
58
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  • Cells possessing true nuclei containing chromosomes, replicating by mitosis.
  • Contains organelles
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Eukaryotes

59
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  • Lack true membrane-bound nuclei, circular chromosome, plasmids
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Prokaryotes

60
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Common features of Eukaryotes and prokaryotes?

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  1. DNA
  2. Plasma membrane
  3. Cytoplasm
  4. Ribosomes
61
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The genetic material?

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DNA

62
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Phospholipid bilayer

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Plasma membrane

63
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A fluid portion called cytosol

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Cytoplasm

64
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Protein synthesis takes place

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Ribosomes

65
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  • Sub-microscopic particle that can infect living cells?
  • Lack cell membranes
  • Completely dependent on host cells for protein synthesis
  • Capable for replicating inside a host
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VIRUSES

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Viruses are composed of nucleic acid and capsid?

T OR F

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True, they are composed of nucleic acid and capsid.

67
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Bacteria are acellular.

T OR F?

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FALSE. Bacteria’s cell type is prokaryotic cells.

68
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Virus’ cell type is acellular.

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TRUE

69
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Bacteria are single celled.

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TRUE

70
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Virus, no cell.

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TRUE

71
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Bacteria are minute?

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FALSE, bacteria are LARGER THAN VIRUSES.

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Virus are only visible under light microscope?

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FALSE, they are visible ONLY under ELECTRON MICROSCOPE.

73
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Bacteria are visible under light microscope.

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TRUE

74
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Viruses typically have spherical, rod-shaped or helical shaped capsids while some viruses, such as bacteriophages, have complex shapes.

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TRUE

75
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Common bacterial cell shapes include cocci, bacilli, spiral, and vibrio (comma-shaped)

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TRUE

76
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Bacteria lack cellular machinery.

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FALSE, they possess a cellular machinery.

77
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Virus lack cellular machinery.

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TRUE

78
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Bacteria has presence of non-membrane bound cell organelles.

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TRUE

79
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Absence of non-membrane bound cell organelles. Uses host organelles; obligate intracellular parasites.

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VIRUS

80
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No ribosomes?

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VIRUS

81
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70s ribosomes

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Bacteria

82
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Cells infected: Animal, Plant, Protozoa, Fungi, Bacteria and Archaea

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Virus

83
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Cells infected: Animal, Plant, Fungi

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Bacteria

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Localized infection?

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Bacteria

85
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Systemic infection?

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Virus

86
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Authorizes and organizes the taxonomic classification of and nomenclatures of viruses?

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ICTV- International Committee on Taxonomy for Viruses

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  • Small infectious agents which are circular single stranded RNAs without a protein coat.
  • They cause disease of plants.
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VIROIDS

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Circular single0stranded RNA with some pairing between complementary bases and loops where no such pairing occurs.

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VIROIDS

89
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  • Infectious particles composed solely of protein with no detectable nucleic acid.
  • Highly resistant to inactivation by heat, formaldehyde, and UV light that inactivate viruses.
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PRIONS

90
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Also called transmissible spongiform encephalopathies?

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PRIONS

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