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BIOS 242 Final Exam

  • Industrial Microbiology
  • –Answer production of organic compounds such as antibiotics, hormones, vitamins, acids, solvents and enzymes.

  • Agricultural Microbiology
  • –Answer concerned with the relationships between microbes and domesticated plants and animals

  • Medical Microbiology
  • –Answer study of microbes as they relate to medicine (infections for example)

  • Public Health Microbiology
  • –Answer control and spread of communicable diseases and inspect food and water sources

  • Environmental Microbiology
  • –Answer study of relationships between microbes and among microbes, other organisms, and their environment

  • Pharmaceutical Microbiology
  • –Answer manufacture of vaccines and antibiotics

  • Who disproved spontaneous generation?
  • –Answer Louis Pasteur by swan neck flask experiment

  • Louis Pasteur
  • –Answer

  • invented pasteurization
  • showed that human diseases arise from infection 1 / 3

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  • Frederick Griffith
  • –Answer Discovered transformation in S. pneumoniae that has a smooth (S) capsule in its appearance was capable of causing lethal infections upon injection into mice. Because of their lack of a protective coat, the R-type bacteria are destroyed by the animal after the injection.

  • How does the capsule contribute to pathogenicity?
  • –Answer enhances the ability of bacteria to cause disease by preventing phagocytosis

  • Last Universal Common Ancestor (LUCA)
  • –Answer the organism to which all other organisms can be traced back

  • Gene Therapy
  • –Answer the insertion of working copies of a gene into the cells of a person with a genetic disorder in an attempt to correct the disorder

  • Backbone of DNA chain is alternating and consists of and
  • –Answer phos- phates, deoxyribose

  • The two strands of DNA are and have base pairs
  • –Answer antiparallel, complimentary

  • What type of bonds hold the DNA strands together?
  • –Answer hydrogen bonds

  • What are 3 types of horizontal gene transfer in bacteria?
  • –Answer

  • Conjugation
  • Transformation
  • Transduction
  • What is conjugation? 2 / 3

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–Answer transfer of DNA between bacteria using a pilus

  • What is transformation?
  • –Answer process in which one strain of bacteria is changed by a gene or genes from another strain of bacteria

  • What is transduction?
  • –Answer the process by which a bacteriophage serves as the carrier of DNA from a donor cell to a recipient cell

  • astidious organisms nutritional requirements?
  • –Answer organisms that require many growth factors or special nutrient growth requirements including exogenous nitrogen sources like amino acids

  • Capsule stain
  • –Answer capsule remains unstained and forms a while ring around stained cell and background -red/pink

  • Acid-fast stain
  • –Answer a differential stain used to identify bacteria that are not decol- orized by acid-alcohol Pink - acid fast Blue - nonacid fast

  • Gram stain
  • –Answer a differential staining method that distinguishes between two differ- ent kinds of bacterial cell walls Positive- purple

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SUBSCRIBE BIOS 242 Final Exam 1. Industrial Microbiology –Answer production of organic compounds such as antibiotics, hormones, vitamins, acids, solvents and enzymes. 2. Agricultural Microbiology...

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