Invisible World
Process used by ancient civilizations to preserve food by anaerobic conversion of carbohydrates to CO2 and alcohol.
What is fermentation?
Advanced imaging technique that uses a spatial pinhole to block out-of-focus light.
What is confocal microscopy?
Having a tuft of flagella at one end.
What is lophotrichous?
One species benefits, while the other is neither helped or harmed.
What is commensalism?
Stereoisomer that rotates polarized light to the left
What is levorotary?
Person who added fungi as a 5th kingdom to the tree of life.
Who is Robert Whittaker?
Shifting direction of light ray when it passes through interfaces with different densities.
What is refraction?
Essential polymers embedded in the peptidoglycan layer of Gram-positive bacteria that give stability.
What is teichoic acid?
Gram-negative bacteria in Class Gammaproteobacteria that has a capsule.
What is Klebsiella?
Macromolecules made up of carbon, hydrogen, and oxygen atoms (usually in a 1:2:1 ratio)
What are carbohydrates?
Kingdom of insects, mammals, & helminths.
What is the Kingdom of Animalia?
Electromagnetic radiation with the highest energy.
What are gamma rays?
Cellular process where nutrients are engulfed as small dissolved molecules
What is pinocytosis?
Highly pleomorphic organism that may cause Rocky Mountain spotted fever via an insect vector.
What is Rickettsia?
Monomer + Monomer >>> Polymer + Water
What is dehydration synthesis reaction?
Distinct version of a species that has identifiable genetic or functional differences from other members of the same species.
What is a strain?
Chemicals used to preserve biological tissues by maintaining cellular structure for microscopy.
What are fixatives?
Environment with a net flow of water entering a cell.
What is a hypotonic environment?
Gram-positive bacteria that have less than 50% of guanine and cytosine in the DNA.
What is Low G+C Bacteria?
Artificial sphere made of a lipid bilayer enclosing a hollow core of water
What is a liposome??
Practice of organizing organisms into different groups based on their shared characteristics.
What is classification
Lense type that creates & magnifies an image.
What is a convex lens?
5 criteria to establish a causative microbe and its disease.
What are Koch’s postulates?
Etiological agent of Bubonic Plague.
What is Yersinia pestis?
Turn solid biological molecules into a vapor of charged particles (ions) without destroying them – yielding mass to charge data
What is MALDI-TOF?