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1
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What are the two types of cells?

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Prokaryotic, eukaryotic

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What is an example of prokaryotic cells?

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Bacteria
archaea

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3
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What is an example of eukaryotic cells?

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Eukarya

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Which cell is larger?

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Eukaryotic

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Which cell is smaller?

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Prokaryotic

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6
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What is eukaryotic cells defined by?

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Presence of a nucleus

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7
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What is light microscopes magnification?

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1,000x

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8
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What is electron microscopes magnification?

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more than 100,000x

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9
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Scanning probe microscope can produce images of what?

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Individual atoms on a surface

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10
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What are the three concepts of a bright field microscope?

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Magnification, resolution, contrast

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What is resolution?

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Ability to distinguish two objects that are very close together

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12
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What are the two lens types in a compound microscope?

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Objective and ocular

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13
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What are the magnifications of objective lenses?

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4x, 10x, 40x, 100x

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14
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What is the magnification of the ocular lens?

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10x

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15
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What does the condenser lens do?

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focuses light on specimen

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16
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Which lens does not magnify?

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Condenser lens

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17
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What is maximum resolving power of the light microscope?

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0.2 micrometers

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18
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What is the point of the immersion oil on the 100x objective?

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Prevents refraction of light, keeps rays from missing openings in objective lens

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19
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What do stains do in contrast?

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They increase contrast but kill microbes

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20
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Electron microscopes use _______ lenses
_______
and _______ screen to replace glass lenses

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Electromagnetic lenses
electrons
fluorescent

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21
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Resolving power of electron microscope

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1,000 or greater
TOTAL power = 100,000x

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22
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In an electron microscope, lenses and specimen must be in _______

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vacuum

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23
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Two types of electron microscopes

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Transmission Electron Microscope TEM
Scanning Electron Microscope SEM

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24
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TEM is beam of electrons that pass ________ specimen or scatters

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Through

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25
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TEM depends on the ________ of the region

________ is used to view internal details

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density

thin-sectioning

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26
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what microscopy is a newer method that reduces damage to cells and creates 3-D images

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Cry-electron microscopy

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27
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SEM is beam of electrons that scans ________ of specimen

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Surface

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28
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in SEM, electrons are ________ from specimen

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Released

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29
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What is a drop of liquid specimen that is overlaid with a coverslip?

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Wet mount

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30
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What is simple staining?

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uses a single dye to stain specimen

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31
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in a simple stain, what carries the positive charge? what carries the negative charge?

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Basic dyes
acidic dyes

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32
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What are methylene blue and crystal violet?

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basic dyes

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33
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An acidic dye can be done as a ________ ________

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wet mount

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34
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What is differential staining

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used to distinguish different groups of bacteria

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35
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What do gram positive and negative distinguish?

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difference in cell wall structure

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36
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Steps of gram staining

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  1. crystal violet (primary stain)
  2. iodine (mordant)
  3. alcohol (decolonizers)
  4. Safranin (counterstain)
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37
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In what step will gram + cells remain purple and gram - cells become colorless?

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step 3 (alcohol)

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38
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What happens to cells in step 3 of gram stian?

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gram positive: purple
Gram negative: clear

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39
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What happens in step 4 of gram stain?

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gram positive: purple
gram negative: turns pink

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40
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What does the success of a gram stain depend on?

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The length of time of the decolorizing step (step 3) and the age of culture

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41
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What is the acid fast stain?

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used to detect organisms that do NOT readily take up dyes

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42
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What does acid fast stain detect?

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Mycobacterium species such as causative agents of tuberculosis and Hansen’s disease (leprosy)

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43
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What do the cell walls of mycobacterium contain?

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High concentrations of mycolic acids

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44
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Procedure of the acid fast stain

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  1. Primary stain is concentrated red dye
  2. Acid fast cells retain red dye after being flooded with acid alcohol
  3. Methylene blue used as COUNTERSTAIN
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45
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What is the capsule stain?

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Allows observation of gel-like layer that surrounds some microbes

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46
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What is stained in capsule staining?

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The background

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47
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What is added to the wet mount in capsule stain?

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India ink

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48
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What is endospore stain?

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Allows visualization of endospores, resistant dormant cells often formed by Bacillus and Clostridium

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49
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What do endospores resist?

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Gram stain, appears as clear object

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50
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Endospores stain use what to facilitate the uptake of the primary dye

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Heat

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51
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What is the primary stain of endospore stain

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Malachite green

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52
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What does the counterstain color in endospore stain?

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Colors other cells pink that aren’t endospores

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53
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What is the counterstain of endospore stain?

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Safranin

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54
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What is the flagella stain?

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uses a substance that makes the dye adhere to thin flagella, making them visible

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55
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What is peritrichous cell?

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Flagella surrounds the cell

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56
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What is polar cell?

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Flagellum on one end

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57
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immunofluorescence uses what to tag a unique microbe protein?

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Fluorescent dye-antibody labels

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58
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What shape is coccus

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Spherical

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59
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What shape is rod?

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Cyclindrical

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60
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Rod is also called

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Bacillus

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61
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What is short rods called

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Coccobacillus

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62
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Where is great diversity found?

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in low nutrient environments

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63
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list other shapes from least curly to most curly

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Vibrio (bent shape)
Spirillum (3 curls)
Spirochete (very curly)

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64
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Most prokaryotes divide by

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Binary fission

65
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What shape is staphylococcus

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Grape like clusters

66
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What shape is sarcina

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Cubical packets

67
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What shape is streptococcus

A

Chains

68
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What shape is Neisseria gonorrhoeae

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Diplococci

69
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What layers are in the cell wall of the prokaryotic cell?

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cytoplasmic membrane, cell wall, capsule (if present)

70
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Where is chromosome located in a prokaryotic cell?

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Nucleoid

71
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What are the things on the surface of the prokaryotic cell that help with motoin?

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pilus

72
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What defines the boundary of a prokaryotic cell?

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Cytoplasmic membrane

73
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What layer is embedded with proteins?

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Phospholipid bilayer

74
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What tails face in?

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Hydrophobic tails

75
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What tails face out?

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Hydrophilic tails

76
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What are the functions of proteins?

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Selective gates, sensors of environmental conditions, enzymes

77
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What is the fluid mosaic model?

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Proteins drift about in lipid bilayer

78
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The cytoplasmic membrane is how permeable?

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Selectively permeable

79
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What passes through the cytoplasmic membrane?

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O2, CO2, N2, water, small HYDROPHOBIC molecules

80
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Some cells facilitate water passage with ________

A

Aquaporins

81
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How do other molecules that can’t permeate the membrane move?

A

Transport systems

82
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What does not pass through the membrane?

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Sugars, ions, amino acids, ATP, macromolecules

83
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What is simple diffusion?

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Movement from high to low concentrations until equilibrium is each

84
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What does the speed of diffusion depend on?

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concentration

85
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The greater the difference in concentration on either side of a membrane, what happens to the rate of the diffusion?

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It’s higher, increases

86
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What is osmosis?

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the diffusion of water across a selectively permeable membrane due to UNEQUAL solute concentrations

87
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Water diffuses from what areas to what areas?

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high water (low solute) concentration to low water (high solute) concentration

88
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Water flows from what solution to what solution?

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hypotonic to hypertonic

89
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There is no net water flow between what soluteions?

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isotonic

90
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Environment of prokaryotes are typically ________

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Dilute/hypotonic

91
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Water flows into the cell where the cytoplasm is a ________ solution

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Concentrated/hypertonic

92
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What prevents the cell from bursting during osmosis?

A

Cell wall

93
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The electron transport chain is embedded in what?

A

Cytoplasmic membrane

94
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The ETC uses energy from ________ to move ________ out of cell

A

Electrons, protons

95
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ETC creates ________ gradient across membrane

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Electromechanical

96
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Energy in ETC is called

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Proton motive force

97
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Proton motive force is harvested to drive ________ and some forms of transport/motilify

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ATP synthesis

98
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Most molecules must pass through proteins functioning as ________

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Selective gates

99
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Transport systems have

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Permeases or carriers

100
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What system is highly specific?

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Transport system

101
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What is the cell wall like in a prokaryotic cell?

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strong, somewhat rigid, prevents cell from bursting

102
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Cell wall distinguishes what two types of bacteria?

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Gram positive, gram negative

103
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What is ONLY found in bacteria?

A

Peptidoglycan

104
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What is peptidoglycan shaped like?

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alternating series of subunits form glycan chains

105
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What are the subunits in glycan chains

A

N-acetylmuramic acid (NAM)
N-acyetylglucosamine (NAG)

106
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What are the chains that link glycan chains?

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Tetrapeptide chains

107
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What are tetrapeptide chains?

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peptide interbridge in gram POSITIVE cells

108
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Tetrapeptide only in gram….

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Positive

109
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The gram positive cell has a thick ________ layer

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Peptidoglycan

110
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What extends above peptidoglycan layer?

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teichoic acids

111
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What material is BELOW the peptidoglycan layer?

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Gel-like

112
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What is the gram negative cell wall have?

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Thin peptidoglycan layer

113
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Outside the peptidoglycan layer of the gram negative cell is a

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unique outer membrane

114
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What is the unique outer layer membrane of a gram negative cell made of

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Lipopolysaccharide (LPS)

115
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What is the function of LPS

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Signals immune system of invasion by gram neg cell
- small levels elicit response to eliminate invader

116
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What is LPS also called?

A

Endotoxin

117
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What happens when large amounts of endotoxin are accumulating in the blood stream?

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Can be deadly

118
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What does LPS include?

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Lipid A and O antigen

119
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Lipid A

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Recognized by immune system

120
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O antigen

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Can be used to identify species or strains

121
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Outer membrane of gram neg cell blocks passage of many molecules like

A

Antibicrobial medications

122
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Small molecules and ions can cross the outer membrane via

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Porins

123
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What is between cytoplasmic membrane and outer membrane?

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Periplasmic space

124
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What periplasmic space filled with?

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gel-like periplasm

125
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What happens in the periplasmic space?

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Exported proteins accumulate unless specifically moved across outer membrane

126
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What part of cell does crystal violet stain?

A

inside of cell

127
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Gram ? cell wall prevents crystal violet-iodine complex from being washed out

A

positive

128
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What dehydrates the thick layer of peptidoglycan

A

Decolorizing agent

129
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What does the decolorizing agent do to the gram neg cell wall?

A

Damages outer membrane of the cell wall, because thin layer of peptidoglycan can’t retain dye complex

130
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What bacteria lacks a cell wall?

A

Mycoplasma

131
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What is different about mycoplasma?

A

It is unaffected by penicillin and lysozyme
cytoplasmic membrane contains sterols that increase strength

132
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What is the cell walls of archaea like?

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  • No peptidoglycan, pseudopeptidoglycan instead
  • S-layers that self assemble; built from sheets of flat protein or glycoprotein subunits
133
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What is the description of the capsule?

A

distinct, gelatinous

134
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What is the description of slime layer?

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Diffuse, irregular

135
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Most composed of glycolyx

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sugar shell but some are polypeptides

136
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Once attached to a surface, cells can grow as _______

A

biofilm

137
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What is a biofilm?

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Polymer encased community like dental plaque

138
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Some capsules allow bacteria to evade ______-

A

Host immune system

139
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What involves motility?

A

Flagella

140
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What is an important disease related to flagella?

A

helicobacter pylori

141
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What are the three parts of the bacterial flagellum

A

Basal body
Hook
Filament

142
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What is different about archael flagella?

A

Chemically distinct, use energy from ATP instead of proton motive force

143
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What is chemotaxis?

A

Bacteria sense a chemical and move toward it if its a toxin

144
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Movement is a series of what two movements due to coordinated rotation of flagella?

A

Runs: straight lights
Tumbles: changes in direction

145
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Which is longer, pili or flagella?

A

Flagella

146
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Pili that allow surface attachment are called

A

Fimbriae

147
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What movements involve pili?

A

Twitching motility, gliding motility

148
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What do sex pilus do?

A

joins bacteria for DNA transfer

149
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What is endospores?

A

unique type of DORMANT cell

150
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What is endospores produced by

A

Bacillus, Clostridium

151
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What is endospores resistant?

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Heat, desiccation, chemicals, UV light, boiling water

152
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Endospores can _______ to become _______ cells that can multiply

A

Germinate, vegetative cells

153
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_______ is triggered by limited or nitrogen in endospores

A

Sporulation

154
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What do endospore layers do?

A

Prevent damage

155
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What protects the core of an endospore in dehydrates state and protects from heat?

A

Cortex

156
Q

what plays an important protective role in endospores sporulation?

A

Calcium dipicolinate

157
Q

_______ is triggered by heat, chemical exposure

A

Germination

158
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Is germination and sporulation a means of reproduction?

A

No

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