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What is Microbial growth?

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Increase in the number of cells.

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What are the chemical and energy requirements for growth?

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Carbon, energy, and electrons

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Organisms classified into two groups based on the source of carbon?

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  • Autotrophs (inorganic) ex carbon dioxide
  • Heterotrophs (organic) ex Lipids, carbs, proteins
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Organisms are classified into two groups based on the source of energy.

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  • Chemotrophs (chemical)
  • Phototrophs (light)
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What is an autotroph?

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Make their organic carbon molecules from inorganic start materials using a process called Carbon fixation.

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What is a heterotroph?

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They cannot fix carbon; They require an external source of organic carbon to live and grow.

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What are phototrophs?

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Harvest energy from light to make ATP.

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What are chemotrophs?

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Harvest energy from chemical bonds of their nutrients to make ATP.

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What are humans’ energy sources?

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Chemohetrotrophs

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What are pathogens’ energy sources?

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Chemohetrotrophs

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An organism that utilizes an inorganic source of carbon as its sole source is called?

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Autotroph

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What is the classification And type of cellular respiration if the final electron acceptor is oxygen?

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Classification - obligate aerobes

Type of cellular respiration - aerobic respiration.

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What is the classification And type of cellular respiration if the final electron acceptor is Nitrate, carbonate, or sulfate?

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Classification - Obligate anaerobes

Type of cellular respiration - Anaerobic respiration

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What is the classification And type of cellular respiration if the final electron acceptor is an organic compound?

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Classification- Facultative Anaerobes

Type of cellular respiration - aerobic respiration and fermentation.

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Oxygen is essential for?

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Obligate aerobes

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Oxygen is deadly for?

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Obligate anaerobes

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What are the four forms of toxic oxygen?

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  • Singlet oxygen
  • Superoxide radicals
  • peroxide anion
  • Hydroxyl radical
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What three enzymes detoxify oxygen?

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  • Superoxide dismutase
  • catalase
  • peroxidase
    (only in obligate aerobe and facultative aerobe)
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What is the goal of detoxifying enzymes?

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Turn into water.

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Physical requirements for growth?

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  • Temperature
  • PH
  • Physical effect of water
  • Association and biofilms
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Low temperature.

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Decreases enzymatic reaction.

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Increased temperature.

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  • Speeds up enzymatic reactions.
  • Can increase the growth rate
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High temperatures.

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Denature proteins (kills cells)

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Three temperature growth.

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Maximum temperature - Highest temperature That supports growth

Minimum temp. - the lowest temperature that supports

Optimal temperature - temperature where cell growth is highest

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Psychrophiles temperature range.
Thrive between -20 C to 10 C
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Psychrotrophs temperature range.
Grow at 0 - 30 C associated with food born illness
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Mesophiles temperature range.
Grow at 10 - 50 C Humans and pathogens
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Thermophiles Temperature range.
Grow around 40-75 C Associated with compost piles and hot springs
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Extreme thermophiles temperature range.
Grow around 65 to 120 C
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Neutrophiles
Grow best in a narrow range around neutral PH; make up the majority of organisms
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Acidophiles
Grows best in acidic habitats
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Alkalinophiles
Live in alkaline soil and water.
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osmotic pressure
Pressure exerted on a semipermeable membrane by a solution containing salutes that cannot move free across the membrane
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Use for osmotic pressure in life?
Preserve food
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Halophiles
Prefer high concentrations of salt
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Obligate Halophiles
Grow optimally in solutions of 25% NaCl ( high osmatic pressure)
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Faculative Halophiles
They are resistant to salt, though they do not reside in high-salt environments ( S. aureus)
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Hydrostatic pressure
Water exerts pressure in proportion to its depth.
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Barophiles
Live under extreme pressure.
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What is binary fission?
- Occurs in most prokaryotic cells - Involves diving a single cell into two - Asexual process
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Steps in binary fission.
1. Replication of genetic material 2. Cell elongation 3. Cells form a new cytoplasmic membrane and wall across the midline (septum created) 4. Splitting apart of new daughter cells (identical)
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Which step will make the two daughter cells identical to each other?
Step 1. Replication of genetic material
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What is binary fission? A - the exchange of DNA between two cells B - a way some organisms create energy C- The fusion of two cells to create a new larger cell D - A process in which a cell grows and divides to produce to daughter cells
D - A process in which a cell grows and dividends to produce daughter cells.
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What is generation time?
- The time that is required for one cell to divide into two cells. - Times can be from 15 min to 24 hrs - depends on species and conditions
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Calculation for generation time
Generation time in minutes/ number of generations
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What is the type of growth called?
Exponential growth is always doubling. (2^n)
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Formula determines cell diving over time.
(initial number of cells) x ( 2^ number of generations)
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Four phases of the population curve
Lag phase - intense activity preparing for population growth. But no increase in population Log phase - exponential increase in population Stationary phase - Period of equilibrium; microbial deaths balance the production of new cells Death phase - the population is decreasing at a logarithmic rate
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What is chemostat?
Device used to maintain a continuous culture in which nutrients are supplied at a steady rate. Goal - sustain microbial growth in the log phase
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What is the name of genes that are expressed at all times?
Constitutive genes
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What are facultative genes?
Are made selectively, when a cell encounters a specific environmental change or has a specific job to do
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What is pre-transcriptional gene regulation?
Allows cells to control gene expression by regulating how much mRNA is made Example - Operons
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What is post-transcriptional gene regulation?
Allows cells to control gene expression by regulating how often mRNA is translated into protein.
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What are operons?
A collection of genes controlled by a shared regulatory system.
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Do operons make catabolic reactions or anabolic reactions?
Both
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What are the four parts of an operon?
1. Promoter - the site where RNA Polymerase binds to start transcription. 2. Genes - 2 or more that encode proteins that work together toward a shared task 3. Repressor - that blocks transcription 4. Operator - part of the operon that the repressor binds to to block transcription.
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What does the regulatory gene do?
Codify the repossessor
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Inducible operons
- Involved in catabolic reactions - Off by default - Certain conditions activate (induce) transcription
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Repressible operons
- involved in anabolic reactions - On by default - Actively transcribe until turned off (repressed)
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Lactose operon with glucose present and lactose absent.
- Operon would be off (no transcription) - repressor would be active to maintain operon off
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Lactose operon with the presence of lactose and the absence of glucose.
- inactivate repressor - operon will be on
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Repressor operon
- usually on - anabolic operons - are transcribed continually until the repressor - For example, tryptophan operon
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Tryptophan is an example of a Repressor operon.
When tryptophan is low/absent, the operon on the repressor is inactive. When tryptophan is high/present, the operon is off, and the repressor is active. Co-repressor; excess of end product through feedback inhibition
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What kind of gene sequence is typically active and produces proteins but can be shut down?
A repressible operon
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What is vertical gene transfer?
Occurs when cell pass their genetic information to the next generation as a result of sexual or asexual
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What horizontal gene transfer?
Passes genetic information between cells by an independent process. (without cell division) - passing of genes within the same generation - Donor cell contributes part of the genome to the recipient cell
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What is transformation?
- Recipient cell takes up all DNA in the environment - Must be competent - The donor cell is a dead cell that left behind naked DNA - naked DNA is DNA no longer enclosed in a cell
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What is transduction?
- The donor cell is infected by bacteriophage - Goes through the lytic cycle - The donor cell will release a transducing phage that will infect the recipient cell - The bacteriophage Injects DNA in the host - recipient cell incorporates new DNA in chromosome through recombination. - Donor killed - recipient lives
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Process of Conjunction
1. Donor cell attaches to recipient cell with sex pili 2. Pilus may draw cells together 3. One strand of F plasmid DNA transfers to the recipient 4. The recipient synthesizes a complementary strand with pilus, and the donor synthesis a complementary strand, restoring its complete plasmid Donor gives f + through sex pilus to recipient cell turning from f - to F +
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Hfr Conjugation
1. F plasmid integrates into the chromosome by recombination 2. cells join via sex pilus 3. A portion of the plasmid partially moves into the recipient cell, trailing a strand of donor DNA. 4. conjugation ends with pieces of f plasmid and donor DNA in the recipient cell. Cells synthesize complementary DNA strands 5. Donor cells and recipient DNA recombine. Making a recombinant f - ( gains part of f plasmid and part of donor DNA)
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