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vocab microbiology Flashcards

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MicroBio Vocab

Two unlike organisms living together with one being inside the other

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Endosymbiosis

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A tentative explanation for an observation, phenomenon, or scientific problem that can be tested by further investigation

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Hypothesis

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The supposed development of living organisms from non living matter

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Spontaneous generation

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The lens located below the stage of a light microscope that focuses a cone of light on the sample

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Condensor

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Any staining procedure that distinguishes organisms based on their staining properties

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Differential staining

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A microscope that retains proper focus when the objectives are changed

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Parfocal

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Term describing a molecule that has that has both hydrophilic and hydrophobic regions

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Amphipathic

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A layer of well-organized material, not easily washed off, lying outside the cell wall

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Capsule

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The pattern of microbial behavior in which the microorganism moves toward chemical attractants and away from repellents

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Chemotaxis

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The bacterial plasma membrane plus all the structures outside of it

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Cell envelope

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Organic compounds that must be supplied in the diet for growth because they are essential cell components or precursors of such components and cannot be synthesized by the organism

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Growth factors

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A complex of DNA and proteins, primarily histones, in the cell nucleus that stains readily with basic dyes and condenses to form chromosomes during cell division

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Chromatin

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The process in which a cell takes up solutes or particles by enclosing them in vesicles pinched off from its plasma membrane

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Endocytosis

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A membrane-enclosed structure within a cell, such as mitochondrion, vacuole, or chloroplast, that performs a specific function

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Organelle

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A series of chemical reactions that occurs as part of the dark reactions of photosynthesis, in which carbon is broken away from gaseous carbon dioxide and fixed as organic carbon in compounds that are ultimately used to make sugars and starch as food

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Calvin Cycle

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A substance or preparation for killing algae

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Algicide

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An enzyme that changes their shape, or conformation, upon binding of a modulator

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Allosteric Enzyme

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An increase in number of micro organisms

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Growth

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An organism that manufacturers its own food from inorganic substances using light for energy

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Phototroph

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Any chemical agent used chiefly on inanimate objects to destroy or inhibit the growth of harmful organisms

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Disinfectant

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Microorganisms that do not require oxygen for growth but do grow better with it

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Facultative anaerobe

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Reactions that replenish depleted tricarboxylic acid cycle intermediates

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Anaplerotic Reactions

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The amount of energy that must be put into a system in order to cause a chemical process to occur

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Activation energy

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The destruction of all living micororganisms

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Sterilization

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The material or substance on which an enzyme acts

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The rotating enzyme complex that couples ATP production to the flow of hydrogen ions

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ATP Synthase

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The process in cell metabolism by which respiratory enzymes in the mitochondria synthesize ATP from ADP and inorganic phosphate during the oxidation of NADH by molecular oxygen

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Oxidative phosphorylation

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The time required for a microbial population to double in number

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Generation time

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A chemical or physical agent that causes mutation

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A DNA binding protein binds near the gene and turns up the level of expression

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Positive control

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DNA copy of an RNA molecule

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complementary DNA

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A permanent heritable change in the genetic material

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A polymerase that catalyzes the synthesis of RNA from a DNA template

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RNA polymerase

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A protein coded for by a regulator gene that can bind to the operator and inhibit transcription

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A small molecule that stimulates the synthesis of an inducible enzyme

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An organism with a mutation that causes it to lose the ability to synthesize an essential nutrient

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Enzyme that uses ATP energy to unwind DNA ahead of the replication fork

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Technique used to synthesize large quantities of specific nucleotide sequences from small amounts of DNA

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polymerase chain reaction

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The base triplet on a tRNA that is complementary to the triplet codon on mRNA

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anti-codon

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The RNA that is the structural and catalytic part of a ribosome

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The segment of DNA to which the repressor protein binds. It controls the expression of the genes adjacent to it.

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The make identical copies of a DNA sequence

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Obligate intracellular parasite

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The latent form of a temperate phage that remains within the lysogen, usually integrated into the host chromosome

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A clear area in a lawn of host cells that result from their lysis by viruses

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A gene whose activity is associated with the conversion of normal cells to cancer cells

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A virus life cycle that results in the lysis of the host cell

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Lytic cycle

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Existing in a person or animal from birth

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A localized protective reaction of tissue to irritation, injury, or infection, characterized by pain, redness, swelling and sometimes loss of function

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Inflammation

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An outer membranous layer that surrounds the nucleocapsid in some viruses

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Any of several regulatory proteins, such as interleukins and lymphokines, that are released by cells of the immune system and act as intercellular mediators in the generation of an immune response

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The process by which an antigen selects the best-fitting B Cell receptor, activating that B cell, resulting in the synthesis of antibody and clonal expansion

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clonal selection

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Of or relating to an immune response by the body against one of its own cells or tissues

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Autoimmunity

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A glycoprotein made by plasma cells (mature B cells) in response to the introduction of an antigen

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The reversion of an animal cell to a more primitive, undifferentiated state

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Any virus, bacterium, or other agent that causes disease

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