Microscopy
Staining
Classification
Metabolism
Enzymes
100
The use of light or electrons to magnify objects
What is microscopy?
100
A slide is gently heated by passing the slide, smear up, through a flame
What is heat fixation?
100
Genera > Families > Orders > Classes > Kingdoms > Domains
What is Linnaeus’s System of Classification?
100
The two major classes of metabolic reactions
What are Catabolism and Anabolism?
100
Hydrolases, Isomerases, Ligases / Polymerases, Lyases, Oxidoreductases, and Transferases
What are the six basic categories of enzymes?
200
The ability to distinguish between two points.
(x=0.61*wavelength/numerical aperture)
What is resolution?
200
The portion of a salt dye that is colored
What is the chromophore?
200
The type of testing that allows technicians to test pathologenic bacterial specimens with known antibodies
What is serological testing?
200
Electrons are transferred from an electron donor to an electron acceptor in a _____ reaction
What is a redox reaction?
200
The portion of an enzyme that is complementary to the enzyme’s substrate
What is the active site of an enzyme?
300
2 things that determine clarity of an image
What are resolution and contrast?
300
The stain that involves no more than 30-60 seconds, then is rinsed off.
(Used to determine size, shape, and arrangement)
What is a simple stain?
300
Blood fluid containing antibodies that bind to the antigens that triggered their production
what is an antiserum?
300
Increase the likelihood of a reaction (Are not changed in the process)
What is a catalyst?
300
What is the Induced-fit model?
400
Bright Field, Dark-Field, Phase, Fluorescence, Confocal
What are the types of Light Microscopy?
400
Cells that appear pink after a gram stain
What is Gram-negative?
400
A descriptive two part name given to each species
What is a binomial?
400
NAD+, NADP, and FAD are examples of ______
What are electron carrier molecules?
400
Binding of the substrate to a secondary site causes the enzyme active site to change shape
What is noncompetitive inhibition?
500
Probe microscope capable of magnifying 100,000,000x and can magnify living specimens that do not conduct electrons
What is Atomic Force Microscope (AFM)?
500
Negative, flagellar fluorescent stains
What are the 3 types of special stains?
500
He developed the current system of taxonomy
Who is Carolus Linnaeus?
500
First step in the catabolism of glucose via respiration and fermentation
What is glycolysis?
500
Humans: 37 degrees C
Hyperthermophiles: 80 degrees
What is the optimal temperature for enzyme activity?