Chapter 1
The theory that living things come from living things.
What is biogenesis?
Organisms that don't contain nucleus and organelles.
What are prokaryotes?
Organelles responsible for ATP synthesis through cellular respiration.
What are mitochondria?
The only type of microscope that can be used to observe viruses.
Scientist that created postulates to determine that an infectious agent is the cause of an infectious disease.
Who is Robert Koch?
Dormant structure that bacteria form under starvation and is considered the most resistant microbial form.
What is endospore?
Organelle involved in protein synthesis and transport.
What is rough endoplasmic reticulum?
Viruses without an envelope.
What are naked viruses?
Field of biotechnology related to the modification of microbial genes to allow the production of hormones, vaccines, etc.
What is genetic engineering?
Major component of the bacterial cell wall.
What is peptidoglycan?
Eukaryotic organism with cell walls and are considered to be major decomposers in the environment.
What are fungi?
Type of viruses that replicate in the nucleus of the cell.
What are DNA viruses?
British physician and a pioneer in the use of aseptic technique in medical procedures.
Who is Joseph Lister?
Place in the bacterial cell where most of the ATP is produced through cellular respiration.
What is cell/plasma/cytoplasmic membrane?
Eukaryotic organisms that are unicellular and lack cell walls.
What are protozoa?
Stage of viral multiplication associated with destruction of the capsid within the cell.
What is uncoating?
Father of epideimiology
Who is John Snow?
Lipid found in the cell wall of Mycobacteria that confers more impermeability to dyes and resistance to acid.
What is mycolic acid?
Structure found in the cytoplasm of a cell that is responsible for anchoring organelles and for changes in cell shape.
What is cytoskeleton?
When a temperate phage introduces a new trait into a bacterial strain and can make it more pathogenic.
What is lysogenic conversion?