Binomial Nomenclature
Viruses, Viroids,and Prions
Microbial Economics
Medical Microbiology
Microbial Articles of Interest
100
This is an important rule of proper names reminds you to this regarding the genus of bacteria.
What is capitalization?
100
Members of this group are thought of as this designation.
What are obligate intracellular parasites?
100
For thousands of years this early riser has been made by using technology still applied today.
What is bread?
100
One of the greatest killers the world has ever known.
What is smallpox?
100
A decade ago, several European labs decided to cooperate on the plan to decipher this genome.
What is yeast?
200
Another word for short, you should never do this to the species name.
What is abbreviate?
200
They consist of a piece of nucleic acid surrounded by a protective protein coat.
What are viruses?
200
Bacteria are used to synthesize this product which is easily digestible for termites.
What is cellulose?
200
One-third of the entire population of Europe, approximately 25 million people, died of this bacterial disease between 1346 and 1350.
What is the bubonic plague?
200
The most dramatic phase of the cell cycle in which the cells chromosomes are duplicated.
What is mitosis?
300
When in doubt...
What is write it out?
300
Disease with a known viral etiology.
What is smallpox?
300
Using living organisms to degrade environmental pollutants.
What is bioremediation?
300
Microbes cause disease.
What is The Germ Theory of Disease?
300
Two DNAs are mixed and washed over the fixed DNA where they stick to complementary sequences.
What is a microarray?
400
Members of the same species may vary from one another in minor ways, but not enough to give the organisms different species names, therefore they are given a designation.
What are strains?
400
Thought to cause a number of plant diseases and may cause some diseases in humans.
What are viroids?
400
Viruses are being studied as a means of delivering genes into humans to correct genetic defects such as cystic fibrosis
What is gene therapy?
400
Legionnaires disease, toxic shock syndrome, and lyme disease are a few of these seemingly "new" diseases.
What are emerging diseases?
400
Despite these difference, large numbers of yeast genes closely resemble these eukaryotes.
What are mice and humans?
500
Like many bacteria, Escherichia was named after the person who first isolated and describe it.
Who is Theodor Escherich?
500
This prion is thought to be the culprit behind this maddening cow malady.
What is Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy?
500
Bacteria are being used to destroy these dangerous chemical pollutants.
What are PCBs and DDT?
500
Chronic indigestion, which affects 25% to 40% of the people in the Western world, is caused by this peptic culprit.
What is Helicobacter pylori?
500
Most of the cells in your body contain two complete copies of the genome, one from your mother and one from your father.
What is diploid?