Mibo stuvia Study guides, Class notes & Summaries

energy - Answer all living things need ______ to move and grow chemical reactions (catabolic and anabolic) - Answer Energy comes from: Catabolism - Answer breakdown of complex molecules into smaller ones Anabolism - Answer reactions that build cells Coupling - Answer Catabolic and anabolic reactions can be done together/at the same time in order to use the energy released from catabolism to perform anabolism the microbial buffet - Answer catabolism is nicknamed: polysaccharides...

Dmitri Ivanovsky - Answer -studied Tobacco Mosaic Disease to find a bacterial cause for it -saw that bacterial agent was not removed by bacterial filters -mottling of leaves, stunted leaves, wrinkles Beijerinck - Answer -studied Tobacco Mosaic Disease and also saw that the agent was not removed by bacterial filters -coined the term "virus" for something so small that it must pass through the filters Loeffler & Frosch - Answer -former Koch students -studied infectious Foot & Mouth Dis...

pseudopeptidoglycan - Answer component of archaea cell walls that is similar to peptidoglycan in structure/function but contains different sugars not susceptible to cell wall antibiotics N-acetylosaminuronic acid - Answer component of pseudopeptidoglycan found in cell walls of some types of Archae histone - Answer protein molecule around which DNA is tightly coiled in chromatin choanocyte - Answer Collar cells that line the body cavity and have flagella that circulate water and di...

Central Dogma - Answer DNA --> mRNA ---> Proteins DNA ---> DNA = Replication DNA ---> mRNA = Transcription mRNA ---> Proteins = Translation Base + Sugar = ? - Answer Nucleoside Base + Sugar + Phosphate = ? - Answer Nucleotide Bases - Answer Adenine, guanine, cytosine, uracil (RNA specific), thymine (DNA specific) Sugars - Answer ribose (RNA), deoxyribose (DNA) Differences between DNA and RNA - Answer The DNA and RNA have 3 bases in common, A, G, and C. RNA...

What method is used today to classify organisms? - Answer Polyphasic taxonomy which classifies according to genotype, phenotype, and evolutionary (rRNA) reasons Identify the common characteristics of Deep-Branching Thermophiles - Answer 1. High mutation rate 2. Fastest doubling rates of all bacteria 3. Diverged the earliest from ancestral archaea and eukaryotes 4. Genomically, they are bacteria 5. Usually exist in very hot environments, such as hot springs Describe what makes bacteria ...

genus/species - Answer -Escherichia/Escherichia Coli -genus + epithet = species dutch merchant that used microscope to observe microbes, called them "animalcules" - Answer Antoine Van Leeuwenhoek periplasmic space - Answer space between inner and outer cellular membrane analysis of this allows all life to be organized into 3 domains - Answer 16S RNA as wavelength increases, resolving power - Answer decreases staining technique for TB - Answer acid-fast resolution - Answer m...