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The Little Things in Life
Nope, Still Can't See It
You ARE the Father
You can't take Antibiotics for that
Lagniappe
100
Who was the first person to describe cells using the microscope
Who is Van Leeuwenhoek
100
This method is used to divide microorganisms into groups based on their staining properties
What is differential Staining
100
What are the two types of nucleic acids
What are DNA and RNA
100
Name for bacterial virus
What is bacteriophages
100
The twomajor differences between Cyanobacteria and other purple and green bacteria
What is their photosynthetic pigment system and their ability for oxygenic photosynthesis.
200
The major difference between prokaryotes and eukaryotes
What is membrane bound organelles
200
This is used as a mordant to increase interactions between the cells and the dye
What is iodide
200
Contains all genetic material of an organism
What is the gencome
200
The function(s) of the capsid
What are protects genome and aids in transfer between host cells
200
This group of individuals discovered sulfonamides and sulfa drugs
Who are Gerhard Domagk, and Jacques and Therese Trefouel
300
Characterized by flexible bodies, move by axial filaments
What are spirochetes
300
A measure of how greatly a substance slows the velocity of light
What is refractive index
300
What type of molecules are responsible for responsible for supercoiling and relaxing DNA (hint: Gyrase is one)
What are Topoisomerases
300
The integrated phage genome (hint: Lysogeny)
What is the prophage
300
This group of individuals demonstrated the effectiveness of penicillin
Who are Florey, Chain, and Heatley
400
The subunit sizes for eukaryotic riboses
What are 60S and 40S
400
Produces a bright image of the object against a dark background
What is a dark field microscope
400
Describes the organization of codons such that they can be read to give rise to a gene product
What is the reading frame
400
An infectious agent thought to be composed only of protein
What is prion
400
What are the macronutrients
What is C, O, H, N, S, P, K, Ca, Mg, and Fe
500
The disaccharides found in bacterial cell walls
What are N-acetylglucosamine(NAG) And N-acetylmuramic Acid (NAM)
500
Why do mycobacterium require a special type of staining
What is the high lipid content in cell walls
500
The start point for DNA transcription
What is promoter DNA/TATA box
500
What is the infectious dose
What is the smallest amount of virus needed to cause infection
500
This type of sterilization can degrade nucleic acids, denatures proteins, and disrupts membranes (hint:think microlab)
What is moist heat/autoclaving