Lesson 1: Intro to Micro
These six groups make up the major types of microorganisms
What are bacteria and archaea, Protozoa, Helminths, fungi, viruses, and prions?
What are slime layer and capsules?
During this phase, bacteria divide at their most rapid rate
What is exponential or log phase?
The site on DNA where replication begins
What is origin of replication?
This scientist disapproved spontaneous generation with his swan neck flask experiment?
Who is Louis Pasteur?
This branch of microbiology monitors and controls the spread of diseases
What is public health microbiology and epidemiology?
This bacterial structure functions as phosphate and nutrients storage sites
What is inclusion bodies?
The asexual process of yeast reproduction
What is budding?
In transcription, This enzyme catalyzes the synthesis of RNA complementary strand to DNA
What is RNA polymerase?
Any agent such as a virus, bacterium, fungus, protozoan, or Helminth that causes disease
What is pathogen?
What are the taxonomic levels of classification from general to most specific?
What is domain, kingdom, phylum (division), class, order, family, genus, species?
Bacteria that lack cell walls
What is mycoplasmas?
During this phase, cells are metabolically active but not diving significantly
What is lag phase?
This type of horizontal gene transfer involves the transfer of small segments of DNA from a dead cell
What is transduction?
Diseases caused by Endospores
What are anthrax, tetanus, and botulism?
This scientist made drawings of microbes from his teeth that he called “animalcules”
Who is Antoine van leewenhoek?
These two groups of bacteria are acid-fast bacteria
What are mycobacterium and nocardia?
During this phase the number of live cells decreases exponentially
What is death phase?
A complete DNA sequence
What is genome?
This enzyme is found in tears and saliva and digest peptidoglycan
What is lysozyme?
Modifying the genetic makeup of microbes, plants, and animals to create new products and genetically modified organisms (GMOs) is known as:
Name two examples of GMOs
What is recombinant DNA technology?
This species of streptococcus is well-known for its capsule and causes classic bacterial pneumonia
What is streptococcus pneumoniae?
Factors such as nutrients depletion, toxic waste accumulation, and limited space contribute to this phase
What is death phase?
This type of RNA carries genetic instruction to the ribosome
What is mRNA?
This phase of transcription which RNA polymerase binds to the promoter region of DNA
What is initiation?