Learning Objectives Questions Flashcards
Understand what is meant by diseases and how states arise.
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Describe how diseases are transmitted and how outbreaks occur.
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Identify diseases that can be acquired in health care settings and how they can be controlled.
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Attain awareness of mechanisms that microorganisms use to control disease.
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Viruses: describe virus structure and life cycles
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Explain viral culture techniques.
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Demonstrate an understanding of viral multiplication.
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Knowledge of different medically important viral infections and their relationship to cancer.
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Define characteristics of fungi and protozoa.
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Differentiate Asexial reproduction and describe each of these processes in fungi
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Classify helminths
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List some medically important fungi and protozoa
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Differentiate between and intermediate and definative host.
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Understand contemporary concepts regarding microbial evolution and classification.
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Become familiar with some of the major lineages of bacteria.
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Understand DNA replication and transfer during cell growth.
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Knowledge of protein production.
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Compare and contrast transformation, conjugation and transduction
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Understanding of gene expression
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Describe the role of mutations
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Knowledge of microbial characteristics utilised by biotechnologists
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Understand microbial death
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Compare effectiveness of physical and chemical methods
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List factors relating to effective disinfection
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Explain the mode of action of control agents
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Understand the basics of microbial metabolism
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Understand the basics of microbial nutritional requirements
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Understand the importance of osmotic pressure to bacterial growth
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Understand that different microbes differ in their oxygen requirements
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Understand how microbial is mathematically described.
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Explain how a pure culture can be obtained
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Understand the phases of microbial growth
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Understand how microbial growth can be measured
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Compare and contrast the cell envelopes of Gram positive and Gram negative bacteria and acid-fast bacteria
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Compare the structure and function of glycocalyx, flagella, fimbriae and pili
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Understand chemotaxis
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Understand mechanisms by which chemicals move across the cell envelope
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Understand the Gram stain and acid fast stain
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Have knowledge of bacterial internal structures
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Have a knowledge of microscopes and how they are used to observed microorganisms
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Explain the steps used in the study and identification of microorganisms
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Understand the role of staining in the study of microbes
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Discuss the importance of Gram stain and special stains
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List the five basic groups of microbes and how to classify them
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Understand the roles of microbes in the environment and society
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Explain the important historical background of microbiology
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Know how to name microbes using scientific nomenclature
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Explain the characteristics of bacteria, fungi, algae, viruses and helminths
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