Microbiology and Immunology (1st) Flashcards
All information that was taught to me while attending Vanier College's "Animal Health Technology" Program, located in St-Laurent Montreal.
What are microbes and micro organisms
Minute living things that individually are usually too small to be seen with the unaided eye. Includes bacteria, fungi, protozoa and microscopic algae and viruses
What do micro organisms do
Help maintain the balance of living organisms and chemicals in our environment
What do soil microbes do
Breakdown waste and incorporate nitrogen gas from the air into organic compounds’s
What does pathogenic mean
Disease causing
What are some benefits of microbes
Makes food, clothing
What’s the genus
The first name which is capitalized
What is the specific epithet
The species name which is not capitalized
What are bacteria
Relatively simple, single celled organisms. Unicellular
What are prokaryotes
Bacterial cells which includes bacteria and Archaea
What is Bacillus
Rod shaped bacteria
What is coccus
Spherical shaped bacteria
What is spirilli
Corkscrew shaped bacteria
How do bacteria reproduce
They reproduce by binary fission
How do bacteria move
They moved by use of their flagella and cilia
What are bacterial cell walls composed of
They are composed of peptidoglycan
What is archaea
Consists of prokaryotic cells lacking peptidoglycan
What is methanogens
Produce methane as a waste product from respiration
What are extreme halophiles
Salt loving bacteria
What are extreme thermophiles
Live-in hot, sulfurous water
What are fungi
Eukaryotes, organisms whose cells have a distinct nucleus containing the cells DNA surrounded by the nuclear membrane
What is the fungi cell wall composed of
Chitin
What are masses of fungi called
Mycelia
What is hyphae
The long filaments on fungi
What is Protozoa
Unicellular eukaryotic microbes that move by pseudopods flagella or cilia
How do protozoa live
They can live as free entities or as parasites that feed off of their host
What is algae
Photosynthetic eukaryotes that are both sexual and asexual. Their cell walls are composed of cellulose
What is a virus
Contains the core of one type of nucleic acid, either DNA or RNA her. Court is surrounded by a protein coat and a lipid membrane called an envelope
What are helminths
Flatworms and roundworms
How do you classify bacteria
The cell walls contain a protein carbohydrate complex called peptidoglycan
How do you classify Archaea
The cell walls, if present, lack of peptidoglycan
How do you classify eukarya
Protists are slime molds protozoa and algae. Fungi are unicellular yeast, multicellular molds and mushrooms. Plants are mosses, firms, cornifers and flowering plants. Animals are sponges, worms, insects, vertebrates
What is cell theory
All living things are composed of cells. All cells come from previous cells
What is biogenesis
Living cells can arise only from pre-existing living cells
What is aseptic technique’s
Prevent contamination by unwanted microbes
What is fermentation
Yeasts convert the sugars to alcohol in the absence of air
What is Pasteurization
Heat just enough to kill most of the bacteria that causes spoilage
What is the germ theory of disease
Micro organisms may cause disease
What is immunity
Protection from disease provided by a vaccination
What is vaccine
Cultures of avirulent microorganisms use for preventative inoculations
What is chemotherapy
Treatment of disease by using chemical substances
What is antibiotics
Chemicals produced naturally by bacteria and fungi to act against other microorganisms
What is synthetic drugs
Chemotherapeutic agents prepared from chemicals in the laboratory
What is bacteriology
The study of bacteria
What is mycology
The study of fungi
What is Parasitology
Study of protozoa and parasitic worms
What is genomics
The study of all organisms genes
What is immunology
The study of immunity
What is virology
The study of viruses
What is recombinant DNA
Fragments of human and animal DNA that codes for proteins attached to bacteria DNA. Can be used to make large quantities of desired protein
What is microbial genetics
Studies the mechanisms by which micro organisms inherit traits
What is molecular biology
Studies how genetic information is carried in molecules of DNA and how DNA directs the synthesis of proteins
What is microbial ecology
The study of the relationship between micro organisms and their environment
What is bioremediation
Using bacteria to break down pollutants
What is biotechnology
The commercial use of micro organisms to produce foods and chemicals
What is gene therapy
Inserting a missing genes or replacing the defective one in human cells
What is an infectious disease
Disease in which pathogens invade a susceptible host
What are the characteristics of prokaryotes
The DNA is not enclosed within a membrane. Their DNA is not associated with histones. Lack membrane enclosed organelles. So walls generally contain peptidoglycan and they divide by binary fission
What are the characteristics of eukaryotes
DNA is found in cells nucleus. DNA is associated with histone and non-histone proteins. Have a membrane enclosed organelles. Cell walls are chemically simple. Cell division involves mitosis
What are diplococci
Cocci that remain in Pairs after division
What is streptococci
Cocci that divide and remain in chain like patterns
What is tetrads
Divided into planes and remain in groups of four
What are sarcinae
Divided in three planes and remain in cube like groups of eight
What are staphylococci
Divide in multiple planes and form grape like clusters
What are single bacilli
Single rods of bacteria
What are diplobacilli
Appear in pairs after division
What is Streptobacilli
Occur in chains
What is coccobacilli
Oval bacteria that look like cocci
What is vibrios
Bacteria that look like curved rods
What is Spirilla
Have a corkscrew shape
What are sphirochetes
Helical, flexible spirals
What does monomorphic mean
Cells that maintain a single shape
What is pleomorphic
Cells that have many shapes
What is a glycocalyx
A substance that surrounds cells
What is a capsule
And organized substance that is firmly attached to sell walls
What is the slime layer
Unorganized and loosely attached substance to the cell wall
What is the extracellular Polymeric substance
A Glycocalyx help cells in the biofilm attached to their target environment into each other
What is the flagella
Long filamentous appendages that propel bacteria
What is a Atrichous
Bacteria lacking flagella
What is petritrichous
Flagella distributed over the entire cell
What is polar
At one or both poles or ends of the cell
What is monotrichous
A single flagella at one pole
What is lophotrichous
A tuft of flagella coming from one pole
What is amphitrichous
Flagella at both poles of the cell
What is motility
Ability of an organism to move by itself
What is taxis
Movement of bacterium toward or away from a particular stimulus
What is chemotaxis
Chemical stimuli
What is phototaxis
Light stimuli
What is H antigen
Flagellar protein
What is serovars
Variations within a species of gram negative bacteria
What are axial filaments
Bundles of fibrils that arise at the ends of the cell beneath an outer sheathe and spiral around the cell
What are fimbriae
Can occur at the poles of bacterial cell or can be evenly distributed over the entire surface of the cell
What is a pili
Usually longer that fimbriae. Pili are involved in motility and DNA transfer
What is twitching motility
Makes contact with another surface and then retracts
What is gliding motility
Smooth gliding movement of myxobacteria
What is conjugation pili
Used to bring bacteria together allowing transfer of DNA
What is the cell wall
Semi rigid structure responsible for the shape of the cell
What is peptidoglycan
Composed of a macromolecular network
What is Porins
Proteins in the membrane that form channels
What is a lipopolysaccharide
A complex molecule that has lipids and carbs and consists of three compounds. Lipid a, core polysaccharide, o polysaccharide
What is lipid a
Lipid portion of lipopolysaccharide
What is core polysaccharide
Attached to lipid a and contains unusual sugars. Provide stability
What is o polysaccharide
Functions as an antigen
What is mycolic acid
Hydrophobic waxy lipid in their cell walls
What is a protoplast
Cellular contents that remains surrounded by the plasma membrane. May remain intact if lyses does not occur
What is an L form
Proteus that loses their cell wall and swell into irregularly shaped cells
What is a spheroplast
Cellular contents, plasma membrane and remaining outer cell wall layer inside a spherical structure
What is osmotic lysis
Bursting of a cell due to osmosis
What is the plasma membrane
Thin structure lying inside the cell wall and enclosing the cytoplasm of the cell
What is the glycoprotein
Protein attached to carbohydrate
What is a glycolipid
Lipid attached to a carbohydrate
What is a fluid Mosaic model
Dynamic arrangement of phospholipids and proteins
What is selective permeability
Selective barriers through which materials can enter and exit the cell
What is the chromatophore or thylakoid
Enzymes involved in photosynthesis found in the plasma membrane and cytoplasm
What is a mesosome
Bacterial plasmid membranes having large irregular folds
What is simple diffusion
Overall movement of molecules from an area of high concentration to an area of low concentration
What is facilitated diffusion
Integral membrane proteins function as carriers that facilitate the movement of ions or large molecules across the plasma membrane
What is osmosis
Net movement of solvent molecules across a selectively permeable membrane from an area with a high concentration of solvent molecules to an area of low concentration of solvent molecules
What is osmotic pressure
Pressure required to prevent the movement of pure water into a solution containing some solutes
What is isotonic solution
Medium in which the overall concentration of solutes equal that Found inside a cell
What is a hypotonic solution
In medium in which the concentration of solutes is lower than that inside the cell
What is a hypertonic solution
Medium having a higher concentration of solutes than inside the cell has
What is active transport
Cell using energy to move substances across the plasma membrane
What is group translocation
Special form of active transport that occurs exclusively in prokaryotes, the substance is chemically altered during transport across the membrane
What is the cytoplasm
Substance of the cell inside the plasma membrane
What is the nucleoid region
The region containing DNA
What is bacterial chromosome
Circularly arranged thread of double-stranded DNA
What is a plasmid
Small, circular, double-stranded DNA molecules
What is a ribosome
The site of protein synthesis
What is an inclusion
Reserve deposits in cytoplasm in prokaryotic cells
What are metachromatic granules
Large inclusions that take their name from the fact that they can stain red with blue dyes
What is volutin
Represents a reserve of inorganic phosphate that can be used in the synthesis of ATP
What is a polysaccharide granule
Inclusion consisting of glycogen and starch
What is the lipid inclusion
And inclusion containing lipids
What is a carboxysome
Inclusions that contain the enzyme ribose 15 diphosphate carboxylase
What is a gas Vacuoles
Hollow cavity is found in many aquatic prokaryotic
What is a magnetosome
Inclusion surrounded by invagination’s of plasma membrane
What are endospores
Gram-positive bacteria forming specialized resting cells
What is sporulation
Endospore formation within a vegetative cell
What is germination
Endospore returning to a vegetative state
What are microtubules
Long, hollow tubes made up of a protein called tubulin
What is endocytosis
A segment of a membrane enclosing a particle and bringing it into the cell
What is cytosol
Fluid portion of cytoplasm
What is cytoskeleton
Provides support and shape
What is cytoplasmic streaming
Movement of eukaryotic cytoplasm from one part of the cell to another
What are organelles
Structures were specific shapes and specialized functions that are characteristic of eukaryotic cells
What is the nuclear envelope
Double membrane surrounding nucleus
What is a nuclear pore
Tiny channels in the membrane
What is nucleoli
Condensed regions of chromosomes where RNAs being synthesized
What are histones
DNA combined with several proteins
What is chromatin
Threadlike mass of protein
What is a chromosome
Chromatic and coils into shorter and thicker rodlike bodies
What is the endoplasmic reticulum
Extensive network of flattened membranous sacs called Cisternae
What is the golgi complex
First step in the transport pathways through an organelle
What’s a transport vesicle
Releases proteins into the cistern
What is secretory vesicles
Detach from the cistern and deliver the proteins to the plasma membrane
What is Lysosomes
Contain 40+ digestive enzymes
What are vacuoles
Space or cavity in the cytoplasm of a cell that is enclosed by a membrane
What is the mitochondria
Rod shaped organelles
What is the Cristae
Folds in the inner mitochondrial membrane
What is the matrix
Semi fluid substance in the center of the mitochondrion
What is a chloroplast
Membrane enclosed structure that contains both the pigment chlorophyll and the enzyme required for the light gathering phase of photosynthesis
What are thylakoids
Chlorophyll containing flat membranous sacs
What is peroxizomes
Contains enzymes
What is a centrosome
Important to cell division
What is an Endosymbiotic theory
Large bacterial cells which lost their cell walls and engulf smaller bacterial cells
What is a metabolism
The sum of all chemical reactions within a living organism
What is catabolism
Enzyme regulated chemical reactions that release energy (the breakdown of complex organic compounds into smaller compounds)
What is anabolism
Enzyme regulated energy requiring reactions (build complex organic molecules from simpler ones)
What are metabolic pathways
Sequences of chemical reactions
What is activation energy
Collision energy required for a chemical reaction
What is a reaction rate
Frequency of collisions containing sufficient energy to bring about a reaction
What is a catalyst
Substance that speed up chemical reactions
What is an enzyme
Biological catalyst
What is a substrate
Specific substrate for a specific enzyme
What is an enzyme-substrate complex
When enzyme orients the substrate into a position that increases the probability of a reaction
What is a turnover number
Maximum number of substrate molecules an enzyme molecule converts to product each second
What is an apoenzyme
Protein portion of an enzyme
What is a cofactors
A nonprotein component
What is a coenzyme
Is a cofactors is an organic molecule
What is a haloenzyme
Whole enzyme (apoenzyme + cofactor)
What is CoA
Synthesize and breakdown fats
What is denaturation
Loss of structure due to heat
What does saturated mean
All active sites are occupied
What are competitive inhibitors
Fill active site of an enzyme and competes with normal substrate
What is a noncompetitive inhibitor
Don’t compete with substrate. Interacts with another portion of the enzyme
What is allosteric inhibition
Binds to site other than the substrates binding site
What is feedback inhibition
Stops cell from making more substances than it needs
What is a ribozyme
RNA that functions like protein enzymes
What is oxidation
Removal of electrons
What is reduction
Gain of electron
What is dehydrogenation
Loss of hydrogen atoms
What is phosphorylation
Addition of phosphate group
What is the electron transport chain
Electron carrier sequences
What is photophosphorylation
Photosynthetic cells use of phosphorylation
What is carbohydrate catabolism
Breakdown of carbohydrate molecules
What is glycolysis
Oxidation of glucose to pyruvic acid
What is enther-doudoroff pathway
Produces 2 NADPH and 1 ATP
What is cellular respiration
ATP generating process
What is aerobe
Uses oxygen
What is an anaerobe
Does not use oxygen