Prokaryotes
Two main prokaryotic categories are _____ and ______.
What are bacteria and archaea?
These adorable microorganisms are known in German as Kleiner Wasserbär ("little water bear")
What are tardigrades?
You have to get a vaccine for this every year!
What is the flu?
Name a food that is produced with the help of lactic acid bacteria.
Yogurt, sausages, cheese, sauerkraut, kimchi, soy sauce
This pathogen is the cause of the Black Death in Europe during the 1300-1400s.
What is Yersinia pestis?
The definition of a prokaryote is:
An organism that lacks a nucleus and other membrane-bound organelles.
Name three categories of microscopic eukaryotes.
What are: protists, fungi, metazoan parasites, algae, protozoa, amoeba, yeasts
T/F: viruses are able to reproduce on their own
FALSE
Name at least three types of bacterial cellular morphology.
What are coccus, bacillus, spirilla, vibrio?
What outbreak occurred recently involving McDonald's Quarter Pounders?
What is E.coli?
This structure helps archaea and bacteria swim.
What is a flagella?
This parasite is responsible for causing malaria.
What is Plasmodium?
This viral disease causes extreme hydrophobia and tremors in infected patients
What is rabies?
Name a structure that is only found in bacteria.
Peptidoglycan, capsule
This pathogen causes a disease known as consumption by the Victorians and the most famous symptom is coughing blood.
What is Mycobacterium tuberculosis?
This polymer makes up the cell wall of many bacterial prokaryotes.
What is a peptidoglycan?
This process involves the cell wrapping membrane extensions and forming vesicles to engulf large particles
What is phagocytosis?
Describe the parts that make up a virus.
What is: proteins and DNA/RNA?
The method used in labs to isolate individual bacterial colonies on a plate with an inoculating loop.
What is plate streaking?
The spread of this disease during 1918-1920 occurred shortly after WWI and is the first pandemic caused by H1N1 virus.
What is influenza/Spanish flu?
The recombination process in prokaryotes can take place in these three ways.
What is Transformation, Conjugation, and Transduction?
This fungal infection commonly targets the tongue and genital areas! Double points if you know the name of the fungus that causes this illness. Half points if you only know the common name :(
What is Candidiasis/Candida albicans? (Thrush)
This was the first virus to be discovered.
What is Tobacco Mosaic Disease?
How many times more bacteria do we have than human cells in our body?
10x
Free for all! Name any pathogen that can spread via the fecal-oral route!
Typhoid, cholera, polio, hepatitis, norovirus, polio, salmonella