Microbes
Life forms that are invisible to the naked eye
What are microbes?
4.5 billion years
How old is Earth?
A protein secreted from bacteria to kill other bacteria
What is a bacteriocin?
The father of microbiology
Who was Antonie van Leeuwenhoek?
Sorting out who kills who among a collection of strains
What is an All by All?
Bacteria, Archaea, Microbial eukaryotes
What are the three MAJOR types of microbes?
Just under 4 billion years ago
When did the first life forms appear on Earth?
Bacteriocins E. coli produce?
What are colicins?
Disproved spontaneous generation
Who was Louis Pasteur?
The lowest concentration of drug that kills or inhibits growth
What is an MIC?
A microbe lacking a cell structure
What is a virus?
Hypothetical first cellular structure
What is a protocell?
A bacteriocin used by Organicin Scientific
What is nisin?
Proposed endosymbiosis for the origin of eukaryotic cells
Who was Lynn Margulis?
Diluting cells until a countable density is reached
What is serial dilution?
The main difference between prokaryotes and eukaryotes
What is the nucleus?
What is endosymbiosis?
Bacteriocins produced by Pseudomonas
What are pyocins?
A found of Organicin Scientific
Who was Peg Riley OR Mat Mitchell or Griffin O'Driscoll?
The apparatus we employ to do large numbers of MICs all at once
What is a 96 well plate?
The closest relative to Eukaryotes
What is the Archaea?
The first life forms capable of photosynthesis
What are Cyanobacteria?
Protects a cell from its bacteriocin
What is immunity?
Created the protocell in his quest to learn the origin of life
Who is Jack Szostak?
The result of a bacteriocin killing the cells of a lawn
What is a zone of inhibition?