Microbio Exam 1 Flashcards
Why is defining the field of Microbiology difficult?
It includes research on several different subjects of science.
3 Domains of life
Bacteria, archaea, and eukarya
3 categories in eukarya
Protozoa, algae, and fungi
The 2 classes of nomenclature that name the microbe
Genus and species
Infectious RNAs only (just nucleic acids)
Viroids
Infectious proteins
Prions
Microbes impact human culture without detection
10,000BCE-1660sCE
Diseases are contagious
Black death
Early microscopy and the origin of microbes
1660sCE-1880sCE
Microscopes invented
First attempts at vaccine
Handwashing
Evidence against spontaneous generation
Golden age of microbiology
1850s-1910s
Sanitation and epidemiology
antisepsis
first artificial vaccines
specific microbes cause specific disease
gram staining
viruses are proposed
unique bacterial metabolism
After the golden age
1900s-present
Biochem, genetics, medicine
molecular biology
microbial discovery
genomics and medicine
Made microscope and observed cells
Robert Hooke
Single lens magnifier, observed single cell microbes, father of microbiology
Antonie van Leeuwnhoek
Sterilized seal flask of meat = no bacterial growth
Bacterial fission
Biogenesis
Lazzaro Spallanzani
Had S curve flask
Concluded that spontaneous generation is not true
Louis Pasteur
Guy who found endospores can be killed
John Tyndall
Idea that living microbes arise spontaneously
Spontaneous generation
The development of life from preexisting life
Biogenesis
Specific disease are caused by specific microbes
Germ theory of disease
Scientific method or criteria used to determine if a specific organism causes a disease
Koch’s postualtes
Needed techniques for isolating bacteria
Pure cultures grown from a single colony of bacteria and gram staining
Significance of Jenner’s discovery
Used cowpox instead of human smallpox. Saw that the milkmaids had different pox than human smallpox because of their job.
This realization led to the start of preventative measures for contagious diseases
Discovered hand washing can prevent uterine infection post-birth
Ignaz Semmelweis
Used chemical treatment of surgical instruments to prevent transmission
Joseph Lister
Identified a chemical antimicrobial drug. Also had theory of immunity
Paul Ehrlich
Our bodies make compounds to fight pathogens (antibodies)
Theory of Immunity
Discovers penicillin
Alexander Fleming
Studied microbes in their natural habitats
Developed media to grow some microbes while excluding others
Discovered bacteria (lithotrophs) can use inorganic molecules
Sergei Winogradsky
Chromosome shape of bacteria
Circular
Bacteria flagellar motion and where the energy comes from
Rotary, proton motive force
Is the outer membrane of bacterial cells gram negative or positive?
Gram negative
Eukaryote chromosome shape
linear
Eukaryote flagellar motion, and what energy it uses
Whip-like, ATP
Larger cell engulfed smaller bacterial cells, became a symbiotic relationship
Endosymbiosis
Evidence for endosymbiosis
Mitochondria and chloroplasts.
Double membranes
Resemble bacteria in shape and size
Bacterial-like genomes
Ribosomes like prokaryotes (this is why mitochondria and chloroplasts are 70S, 50S, 30S even though they are in eukaryotes. The eukaryotic ribosome size in cytoplasm is 80S, 40S, and 60S, though).
Bacilli
Rods
Spirochetes
Long corkscrew
Cocci
Spheres
Vibrio
Commas
Spirilla
Short spirals or helical
Strepto
Linear chains
Diplo
Pairs
Tetrads
4, shaped in a square
Sarcinae
8, shaped in a cube
Stapylo
Clusters
What shape would streptobacilli be?
Linear rods
Layers of bacterial cell envelope (from outer to inner)
Lipopolysaccharide
Outer membrane
Cell wall
Periplasm
Innermembrane
Moves nutrients with the concentration gradient
passive transport
Diffusion across the phospholipids
Simple diffusion
Diffusion where protein channel or carrier is used
Facilitated diffusion
Moves against concentration gradient, low to high concentration. Requires energy input
Active transport
What types of molecules can easily cross the lipid bilayer?
Hydrophobic, small, uncharged
ABC transporters
A type of transporter used for transporting nutrients. ATP dependent (needs to hydrolyze ATP to work)
Influx
Into cell
Efflux
Out of cell
Group Translocation
Transported molecules couple with other molecules inside to hydrolyze ATP. Transported molecules get chemically transformed.
Uses energy directly from an existing chemical gradient
Coupled transport
Symport
Same direction
Antiport
Opposite directions
The diffusion of water across a selectively permeable membrane
Osmosis
Equal concentrations inside and outside of cell
Isotonic