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Microbiology Part 2 (2.2) Flashcards

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What can organisms and biological entities be catergorised as?

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Cellular and Acellular

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2
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By what process are prokaryotes able to replicate asexually?

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Binary Fission

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3
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By what process do single celled eukaryotes replicate asexually?

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Mitosis

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4
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What are the stages of Mitosis?

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  • Prophase
  • Metaphase
  • Anaphase
  • Telophase
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5
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By what process can single celled eukaryotes replicate sexually?

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Meiosis

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6
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What are the stages of Meiosis?

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  • Meiosis 1
  • Prophase 1
  • Metaphase 1
  • Anaphase 1
  • Telophase 1
  • Meiosis 11
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7
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What happens in the process of budding yeast reproduction?

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  • asexual reproduction via budding
  • fusion of two haploid cells to form a diploid cell
  • formation of haploid spores via meiosis
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8
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Microbes reproduce rapidly. True or False?

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True - makes them excellent models for experimental evolution studies.

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9
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What are the stages in growth curves? (in a closed system)

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  • inoculation
  • lag phase
  • exponential phase
  • stationary phase
  • decline/death phase
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10
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How is metabolism carried out in an energy source?

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  • phototrophs gain energy from sunlight

- chemotrophs gain energy from inorganic and/or organic compounds

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11
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How is metabolism carried out in electron sources?

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  • organotrophs gain electrons from organic compounds

- lithotrophs gain electrons from inorganic compounds

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12
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How is metabolism carried out in a carbon source?

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  • autotrophs use CO2 to make carbon compounds (primary producers)
  • heterotrophs use organic compounds from their environment
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13
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What is a niche?

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set of environmental conditions where a species of microbe can replicate.

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14
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What are some conditions that determine where a microbe can live?

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  • nutrient availability
  • oxygen concentration
  • temperature
  • pH
  • light intensity
  • radiation
  • solute concentration (osmolarity & water activity)
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15
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What is a entailed in a free-living lifestyle?

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  • it inhabits every type of environment on Earth

- wide range of metabolic capabilities

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16
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With a symbiotic lifestyle, what happens in a pathogenic environment?

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  • interaction with host organism

- host is damaged

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17
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With a symbiotic lifestyle, what happens in a mutuallistic environment?

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  • interaction with host organism

- where both partners benefit

18
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With a symbiotic lifestyle, what happens in a commensal environment?

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  • interaction with host organism
  • one partner benefits
  • other is unaffected
19
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What is bacteria?

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a single-celled prokaryote

20
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How does bacteria reproduce?

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Asexually by binary fission.

21
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What lifestyles does bacteria have?

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  • free-living
  • commensal
  • mutualistic
  • pathogenic
22
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What can be found in a bacteria?

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  • no nucleus
  • 1 circular chromosome (dsDNA)
  • one or more plasmids
23
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What shapes do bacteria usually take on?

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  • spherical
  • rods
  • spirals
24
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What is usually found in the cell wall of bacteria?

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Peptidoglycan - (gram stains help to identify 2 main groups)

25
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How can you identify a gram positive bacterium?

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  • peptidoglycan traps crystal violet (iodine stain - purple)
  • cells are not decolourised by ethanol wash
  • purple stain masks safranin counters
26
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How can you identify a gram negative bacterium?

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  • crystal violet (iodine stain) = washed away by ethanol wash
  • cell = stained red/pink with safranin counterstain
27
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What does a capsule help bacteria do? (produced by some species of bacteria)

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  • attach to surfaces

- evade the immune response

28
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What do fimbriae help bacteria do?

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  • being thread-like appendages

- helps to attach to surfaces/ other cells

29
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What is flagellum?

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  • tail-like appendage that bacteria use to swim through liquid
  • rotational movement propels bacteria towards nutrients/ away from toxicants via chemotaxis
30
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What is biofilm?

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  • aggregation of bacteria that are attached to each other/ and or a surface
  • embedded in an extracellular polymeric substance
31
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What is a sex-pilus?

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  • thread - like appendage that bacteria use to exchange plasmids (bacterial conjugation)
32
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What does Photorhabdus luminescens (bacterium) form?

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  • forms a mutualistic relationship with nematodes
  • with EPN (entomopathogenic nematode)
  • infect insect larvae - cause lethal septicaemia
  • dead insect larvae glow in the dark
33
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What are archaea and how do they reproduce?

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  • single- celled prokaryotes
  • perform asexual reproduction
  • lack peptidoglycan in cell wall
  • unique cell membrane lipids
  • 1 circular chromosome
  • no nucleus
  • 1 or more plasmids
34
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What are the forms of archaea?

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  • spherical
  • rods
  • spirals
  • rectangles
  • squares
  • lemon - shaped
35
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What the lifestyles of archaea?

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  • free-living (many are extremophiles)

- commensals

36
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What are fungi and how do they reproduce?

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  • single - celled & multicellular eukaryotes
  • asexual/sexual reproduction
  • chitin in cell wall
  • multiple linear chromosomes within the nucleus
37
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What are the forms of fungi?

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  • yeasts

- moulds

38
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What are the lifestyles of fungi?

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  • decomposers
  • mutualistic
  • pathogenic
39
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Give one common mould that acts as a decomposer of food.

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Penicillium

40
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What are protists and how do they reproduce?

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  • single - celled & multiceullar eukaryotes
  • e.g. slime molds, algae, amoebae
  • by asexual/ sexual reproduction
  • multiple linear chromosomes with nucleus
41
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What forms do protists exist in?

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  • unicellular (most)

- multicellular

42
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What are the lifestyles of protists?

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  • free- living
  • pathogenic
  • mutualistic

Foundation in Biology Term 1 Part 2 (12 decks)

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