The Microbial World and You
These microorganisms are unicellular organisms. That lack a nucleus and are described as prokaryotic.
Bacteria
The smallest unit of matter.
What is an atom?
Denoting the spherical shape of a bacteria.
Biological catalyst that lower the energy of activation.
What are enzymes?
This long-running animated TV series features a family with characters named Homer, Marge, Bart, Lisa, and Maggie.
What is The Simpsons?
The study of fungi.
The science of the interaction between atoms and molecules.
What is Chemistry?
Denoting a rod-shape configuration of a bacteria.
What is bacillus?
The temporary intermediate compound that forms when a substrate binds to the active site of an enzyme.
What is the enzyme-substrate complex?
This search engine giant's name became synonymous with searching the internet.
What is Google?
All organisms are classified into one of three domains:
Bacteria, Archaea, Eukarya.
The nucleus of an atom contains this positively charged particle.
What is a proton?
This rigid outer layer protects bacterial cells and gives them shape, composed primarily of peptidoglycan in most bacteria.
What is the cell wall?
The inactive proteinaceous form of an enzyme.
What is the apoenzyme?
This inventor is credited with creating the first practical incandescent light bulb.
Who is Thomas Edison?
This scientist demonstrated that microorganism are in the air everywhere and offered proof of biogenesis.
Louis Pasteur
Pure substances that are composed of a specific type of atom.
What is an element?
These small, hair-like structures help bacteria attach to surfaces and are important for adhesion in some infections.
What are pili (or fimbriae)?
What is a coenzyme?
This law states that the pressure of a gas is inversely proportional to its volume at a constant temperature.
What is Boyles Law?
This process uses bacteria to clean up toxic waste.
What is Bioremediation?
An attraction between ions or opposite charge that holds them together to form a stable molecule.
What is an ionic bond?
A viscous, gelatinous polymer that is external to the cell wall and composed of polysaccharides, polypeptides, or both.
What is the Glycocalyx?
The maximum number of substrate molecules an enzyme molecule converts to product each second.
What is the turnover number?
This global pop star released the albums 1989, Reputation, and Folklore.
Who is Taylor Swift?
Bacterial communities that form slimy layers on surfaces.
What are biofillms?
A chemical reaction that absorbs more energy than it releases.
What is an endergonic reaction?
The movement of a bacterium toward or away from a particular chemical stimulus.
What is chemotaxis?
A coenzyme derived from vitamins, that plays an important role in cellular metabolism.
What is NAD+?
This ancient Greek poet is credited with writing The Iliad and The Odyssey.
Who is Homer?
This individual observed that Penicillium fungus inhibited the growth of a bacterial culture.
Who is Alexander Fleming?
Compounds that contain carbon and hydrogen and are typically structurally complex.
What are organic compounds?
Characteristic of a bacteria, whose cell cell wall consists of many layers of peptidoglycan, fomring a thick, rigid structure.
What is Gram Positive Bacteria?
The loss of a molecules characteristic 3-D structure( tertiary configuration)
What is denaturation?
This tennis player holds the most Grand Slam titles in men’s singles.
Who is Novak Djokovic?
A new or changing disease showing an increase in incidence in the recent past or a potential to increase in the near future.
A molecule have an unequal distribution of charges.
What is a polar molecule?
The outer membrane of this microorganism consists of lipopolysaccharides, lipoproteins, and phospholipids.
What are gram negative bacteria?
The act of filling the active site of an enzyme and competing with the normal substrate for the active site.
This country is both the smallest continent and a large island in the Southern Hemisphere
What is Australia?
This individual introduced the use of a disinfectant to clean surgical wounds in order to control infections in humans.
Who is Joseph Lister?
Solutions that resist drastic changes in pH.
What is a buffer?
In addition to peptidoglycan, this molecule is concentrated heavily in gram positive bacteria.
What is teichoic acid?
Process in which ATP is usually generated when a high energy phosphate group is directly transferred from a phosphorylated compound to ADP.
What is substrate level phosphorylation?
This treaty ended World War I and imposed heavy reparations on Germany.
What is the Treaty of Versailles?
The study of all of an organism´s genes, to study microbiomes in different enviornments.
What is Genomics?
What are stereoisomers?
The pressure required to prevent the movement of pure water into a solution containing some solutes.
What is osmotic pressure?
The transfer of electrons from one electron carrier to the next releases energy, some of which is used to generate ATP from ADP .
What is chemiosmosis?
This historic event, marking the fall of the Bastille, sparked the French Revolution.
What is Bastille Day (or July 14, 1789)?