lecture 4

Question 1

microbiome

Answer 1

complete collection of microorganisms and their genes within a particular environment

Question 2

microbiota

Answer 2

individual microbial species in a biome

bacteria, fungi, archaea, viruses

Question 3

Goals of Human microbiome project

Answer 3

develop reference set
explore relationship between disease, human changes
develop new technology
establish resouce repository
study implications

Question 4

HMP findings

Answer 4

community can change, but functions do not

variations with clinical metadata and ethical/racial

Question 5

bacterial phyla in health humans 4 main

Answer 5

firmicutes
bacteroidetes
actinobacteria
proteobacteria

Question 6

why does microbiome vary

Answer 6

select different communities within host

host variability diet genotype, colonisation

Question 7

functional foods

Answer 7

health promoting or disease preventing property byond basic function of providing nutrients

Question 8

probiotics

Answer 8

live microorganisms that beneficially nourishes the good bacteria

Question 9

solution to communities in human gut go awry

Answer 9

fecal matter transplants to recolonise