Procaryotic Cell Structure Flashcards

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Cocci

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Pairs
Fours (tetrads)
Stacked tetrads
Grape like clusters
Chains
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Bacteria- living organisms?

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Yes
Breakdown and take in raw materials
Make proteins, carbohydrates, lipids etc
Have bacterial DNA

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Rods

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Singles
Chains
Vibrios- curved rods

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Spirals

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Spirochete- thin, flexible spiral rods

Spirilla- thick rigid spiral rods

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Other bacteria shapes

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Flat bacteria

Pleiomorphic- no particular shape

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Cell membrane

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Lipid bilayer, essential, selectively permeable barrier

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Cytoplasmic matrix

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Contains everything between plasma membrane and nucleoid

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Inclusion bodies

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Granules of organic or inorganic material

—storage granules, gas vacuoles

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Nucleoid

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Irregular shape, no membrane, contains specific RNA associated with DNA

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Cell wall of bacteria

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Defines shape, major component= peptidoglycan

Protects from osmotic lysis ( hypotonic conditions) and toxic chemicals

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Gram + bacteria

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Thick peptidoglycan layer
Plasma membrane
Tie choice acid
Lipoteichoic acid
Peri plasmid space
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Gram - bacteria

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Lipopolysaccharide layer
Porin
Brauns lipoprotein
Periplasmic space
Peptidoglycan layer ( thin)
Plasma membrane
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Passive diffusion

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High to low
Moves across membrane because of non specific interactions with transporter proteins
No energy
Water molecules

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Active transport

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Low to high
Requires a transporter protein that specifically moves molecule
Requires ATP
Na+ K+

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Facilitated Diffusion

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High to low
Specifically moves molecule
No energy
Amino acid molecules

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Porins

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Homotrimetric, transmembrane proteins, only on outer membrane of gram - bacteria

Allow passive diffusion of small hydrophillic salutes

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Lipopolysaccarides

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Found on outer membrane of gram - cells

Immune function, avoids hosts defenses

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Protoplasts

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Gram + cells

Cell lacking cell wall after treatment with lysozyme

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Spheroplast

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Gram - cells

Has some cell wall remaining

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Glycocalyx

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“Slime”
Protection, pathogenicity, attachment
If organized= capsule
Unorganized= slime layer

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Fimbriae

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Attach to rocks

Short hairlike appendages

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Pili ( sex pili)

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Specialized structures, genetically determined, exchange of genetic material

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Patterns of flagella distribution

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Monotrichous polar O~
Amphitrichous ~O~
Lophotrichous O«<
Peritrichous&raquo_space;»O««

Flagella made of flagellin

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Spores

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Bacillus and clostridium are the most common

Live in soil, if it drys out bacteria make spores, spores germinate when conditions improve

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Sporulation

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Condense DNA, some ribosomes, and thick protective layers

Spore coat prevents desiccation