lecture 14 Flashcards
living microorganisms
-bacteria
-protista
-mycotae
non-living microorganisms
-viruses
-prion
-retroviruses
what are bacterial colonies
growing bacteria that multiplied and grew on a petri dish
what are the 2 ways to classify the appearance of a cell
- type of cell wall
-cell shape and arrangement
what are the two types of bacterial cell walls
-peptidoglycan
-lipopolysamlharide
4 steps of gram staining
-pour blue dye
-fix it with iodine
-wash out with alcohol
-pour red dye
what does the blue dye in the gram staining determine?
if absorbed it means the cell wall consists of peptidoglycan
if not absorbed then wall consists of lipopolysamlharide
what color is gram +
blue
purple
what color is gram -
pink
red
cell shape of cocci (coccus)
round
cell shape of bacilli
rod-shaped
cell shape of spirilli
twisted or helix shaped
arrangement of a diplo-
in pairs
arrangement of strepto-
in chains
arrangement of staphylo-
in clusters