lecture 4 Flashcards
- What are the symptoms of bacterial tuberculosis? (the PowerPoint gives you the answer within the picture)
Central
-Appetite loss
-Fatigue
Lungs
-Chest pain
-Coughing up blood
-Productive
-Prolonged cough
Skin
-Night sweats
-Pallor
- Which statement describes dental caries?
-A dense collection of these bacteria on the surface of teeth leads to the secretion of acids that destroy minerals in the tooth enamel; sugar alone does not cause caries
-The equivalent of having a cavity
-Teeth turn blackish color because of plaque buildup
- How are dental caries prevented in humans?
-Fluoride treatment
-Only work when sugar is cut out of the diet
- Which bacterial species causes gonorrhea and which age group of humans is it most often diagnosed? (look to the graph on the PowerPoint for the answer)
-Gnorrhead: transmitted through sexual intercourse, can affect the eyes, `
-Neisseria- Spices that cause
-15-24, especially 20-24
- Gonorrhea is transmitted through sexual intercourse or bodily fluids and it infects the throat, urethra, cervix, or rectum and can spread to the eyes and internal organs causing conjunctivitis and arthritic meningitis. In women it causes pelvic inflammatory disease and the __________ become scarred and blocked. Fill in the blank.
fallopian tubes
- Which bacteria causes syphilis?
Treponema pallidum
- How can one contract syphilis?
Through sexual intercourse or from a mother to a fetus
- How many stages of syphilis exist?
THREE STAGES:
Start with sores
The first two stages are sore based.
Sore as holes in skin
- Which statement describes the last stage symptoms of syphilis?
The third and final stage is the most dangerous
Can have heart disease or mental deficiency, and nerve issues
- Which statement describes how one contracts chlamydia or describes its later-stage symptoms?
-Can contract by oral and vaginal intercourse
-Silent STD - no idea you are even passing it
-Symptoms - Itchy symptoms don’t happen until you have fully obtained it.
- There are many beneficial prokaryotes within our environment. Which of these statements describes a way bacteria can be environmentally useful?
-Involved in the Decomposition and breakdown of a lot of essential things that we need in the soils and the air
-If you are breaking down some things in the soil, most of the time, its bacteria
-A large portion of chemical cycles is allowed by bacteria allowing us to life.
-Fixation is when you take a nitrogen gas and turn it into something usable in the soil
No3 to No2 (ground)
- Many bacterial species can have mutualistic relationships with plant or animal species. Which of these statements describe an example discussed in class?
-Symbolic colonies
-Relationship between two species
-Both spices I involved benefit from their relationship
-Legumes (specialized plants that have pockets of nitrifying bacteria) are positive
-One gives the other gets
-LEGUMES WITH BACTERIA
-Ruminants have a unique gut system that can break down (a particular part of the stomach where bacteria is located that can break down things that are hard to break down and get extra energy from them.
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-Bacteria get a meal, and cows will get extra energy realized
- Many bacterial species can have communalistic relationships with plant or animal species. Which of these statements describe an example discussed in class?
-Symbolic relationship
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-Something that benefits others is not harmed or benefited
-The bacteria on kill eat all dead skill cells but those it harm you no it doesn’t prove your hygiene no benefit for you but no harm and bacteria is having a great material.
- According to the video How Bacteria Rule over Your Body – The Microbiome, which statement does not describe the categories of “guests” we have consistently within our bodies?
One: Quiet passengers that do their own thing, and are politely ignored. By being there, they take up space and keep more aggressive intruders in check.
Two: Guests that harm us, But with whom we’ve learned to live, for example, bacteria that literally create acid that melts our teeth, if we don’t brush enough. They want to take up as much space as they can, and we don’t want them to. But, we can’t get rid of them entirely.
Three: Friendly fellows that our bodies want to have around, most of them are a community of 380,000 billion bacteria
- According to the video How Bacteria Rule over Your Body – The Microbiome, about how many species of gut bacteria do we contain? How are they beneficial?
from up to 5,000 different species that live in our gut. These gut microorganisms help us digest food, and pull additional calories from things that we can’t digest ourselves.
