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Chapter 1
Micro Intro
Prokaryotes
Gm+ or Gm-
Protozoa
100
This area of microbiology is concerned with the occurence of disease in the human population.
What is epidemiology?
100
Bacillus anthracis causes ______ and the three types are ______ ______ _______
What is anthrax, cutaneous, inhalational and ingestion
100
The common brewers and bakers yeast
What is saccharomyces cerevisiae?
100
Algae are which: anaerobic or aerobic eukaryotes or prokaryotes
What is aerobic and eukaryotes?
100
A strawberry cervix is diagnostic of what protazoa infection
What is trichomonas vaginalis?
200
This process involves the deliberate alteration (changing) of an organisms DNA to make it do something it may not ordinarily do.
Biotechnology?
200
Mycobacterium leprae is an infection of what system, and name one symptom the infection can lead to.
What is the nervous system, loss of digits, bleeding sores, skin lesions, disfiguration of the skin, muscle atrophy
200
The filamentous form of fungi is called ______ and the single celled form is called _____
What is mycelium and yeast?
200
Kelp and seaweed are macroscopic and can also be called...
What is red and brown algae
200
Protozoa obtain nutrition in what way
What is phagocytosis or absorption?
300
This early microbiological pioneer is credited with developing the very first microscope.
Who is Anton van Leeuwenhoek?
300
This bacteria is part of the normal flora of the mouth and is associated with dental plaque
What is streptococcus mutans?
300
This fungus produces aflatoxin which causes liver cancer
What is aspergillus flavus?
300
This rapid-spreading, colorless algae led to the Irish potato blight in the 1850's by infecting potato plants
What is phytophthora infestans?
300
This protozoa infection causes amoebic meningoencephalitis (severe head ache, fever, disorientation, leading to coma and death <10days) and is inhaled via water spray in swimming pools
What is naegleria fowleri?
400
This process refers to the spontaneous generation of organisms from nonliving matter.
What is Abiogenesis?
400
This is added to milk to make yogurt and cheese and is used in pickling vegetables
What is lactobacillus acidophilus
400
This fungi produces the hallucinogen ergotamine...or LSD
What is claviceps purpurea
400
Unicellular, bioluminescent algea with flagella that can cause major fish kills by producing toxins that shellfish and fish ingest.
What are dinoflagellates?
400
Female mosquitos transmit the disease malaria, caused by this protozoa organism, also explain the two life cycles this protozoa has
What is plasmodium falciparum...in tropical and subtropical regions...one life cycle is in humans (in the liver) the other is in mosquitos. Symptoms include fever chills weakness anemia spleen enlargement and possibly death
500
This early microbiologist is most responsible for finally laying the theory of spontaneous generation to rest.
Who is Louis Pasteur?
500
This bacteria is commonly the cause of sickness in hospitalized patients...it was common in the 1970 because of what?
What is clostridium difficile and anitbiotic over-use?
500
Used for commercial production of penicillin
What is penicillium chrysogenum
500
The symbiotic relationship between algae, _____ and ______ result in ______ which grow on rock surfaces and tree trunk
What is fungi and cyanobacteria resulting in lichens
500
The protozoa causing African Sleeping Sickness, mode of transmission, ans symptoms
What is trypanosoma brucei gambiense, transmitted by the tsetse fly and other biting insects, symptoms include extensive swelling of the lymph nodes, anemia/cardiac/endocrine/kidney disease; encephalitis and menigitis and bouts of confusion with coma like sleep during the day.